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“Pieces of my Childhood Memories” In the summer of 1995, my mom and I talked about making a quilt together with scrapes of material from the clothes I wore as a child. We decided to start this childhood quilt by sifting through the vast pile of old clothes mom packed in a large, dusty trunk in the attic. Some of the clothing fabrics we found were bright yellow and red and blue and every shade in between; others were printed with childhood characters from the late 60’s, and some with psychedelic flowers of the early 70’s; we also found a few dresses with Barbie dolls, stripes, and polka dots. The fabric piles we made became disorderly, requiring continual sorting, ripping, and discarding. We reminisced among the various outfits I wore, as we raised one dress next to another, asking if we remembere