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Make a Family Keepsake Box

Mother and daughter painting
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3. Add something you made with your own hands.

For example, a card, a bracelet, a scarf or piece of clothing, a drawing, a painting, blueprints for a house, part of a car you restored, or some pottery that you painted as a child—anything that came from your own imagination into the physical world. Some of the silliest things are the most memorable.
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From the December 2001 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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