Nostalgia, Hoarding, and the Ever-Expanding World of Things
Sentimentality in a consumerist world

With the plate-sized CD player of my childhood in my hands, its cheap plastic buttons clack inward stiffly as I slide my fingers across its shoddily-made surface. I know that it will never play another CD again in its life here on this dusty shelf; I’m not even sure that it still works. But in this clunky old heirl…
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