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The Pink Airplane

11th

Dec. × ’09

By Sarah

I bought a pink wooden airplane. I dislike using the verb bought here because it suggests such a hollow transaction. Purchased and acquired are even worse. I wish I could say I traded something for the airplane, a handful of jade beads for a pink airplane, a purely symbolic and equal transaction, where each person received a gift [...]

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