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The article was written so very well!! Wow— read like silk feels.

Funny, I morbidly think about my possessions selling at an estate sale. I know the Pyrex will do well and vintage chalkware hangings. Actual photos of rockstars from a local photographer that took them— most of all— a brick from James Dean’s high school when the gym was being torn down. I grabbed one from the pile in Fairmont, Indiana while visiting many years back. There are photos to prove it. Then, my massive— subversive book collection.

I can’t get past what I read about the super throwing the woman’s things off the roof and it being watched as it falls past a window. That hurts. Reminds me of the Instagramer in New York— the trash walker— all the things she has come by as people pass and their belongings are thrown out of their apartments— beautiful Christian Dior and Gucci ties— paintings— all tied up in clear trash bags on the sidewalk. That was someone’s life. Ugh.

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If you are ever in the Detroit area, there's an interesting art exhibit known as the Heidelberg Project, in which a man finds various bits of "trash" that speak to him, and he brings it to a lot as an ever-evolving art show.

It really makes you stop and consider what value is. Precious treasures become nothing overnight, and then, nothing becomes a prized something simply by being brought into this space in a half-ruined neighborhood, which is itself a metaphor as those on the project have changed the meaning of the place.

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