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They teased him before he lost his sight, but it’s different now—coming back to this school for grade seven, a year after the car accident that shattered his life and his face, leaving him blind, visibly scarred, and desperately wanting to fit in.

Despite the chill January temperature, I felt pleasantly warm at the top of the first mountain. It was mostly from the exertion combined with the layers of cold weather gear, but also from satisfaction at my first Winter hike in the Rocky Mountains.

“Dad,” I announced, “I’m going to get a PhD.”
He looked up, and raised his eyebrows. “Why?” he said, with the y curling up into the atmosphere, as if it were utterly alone without answer.
Oh no not again, I thought. What kind of argument will it take this time? “Because I want to be the boss.”
He smiled and quickly tilted his up and back down, “Okay.” He said, and went back to reading his paper.

Anything can become a keepsake as long as its owner designates it as such. For me, it is a piece of cardboard about five inches long and about two and a half inches wide.