People who keep every birthday card, every handwritten note, and every photograph in a labeled box often aren’t just sentimental, many grew up in households where evidence of being loved had to be stored somewhere it couldn’t be taken back
The labeled box of cards and photographs in the closet rarely tells the story people assume. It's not sentimentality — it's evidence-keeping, built by someone who learned early that affection could be revised, and the only way to be sure it had happened was to keep it somewhere i…