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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 3320
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 09:13 am: | 
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What would you donate?
...“The Museum of Broken Relationships is an art concept which proceeds from the assumption that objects possess ... holograms of memories and emotions, and intends with its layout to create a space of secure memory in order to preserve the heritage of broken relationships,” says the exhibit's Web site.
“That's why it could be therapeutic.”
The museum, which has actual displays as well as a virtual, online space, has everything from romantic letters to photographs to gifts given to lovers such as soft toys, but also includes unusual exhibits such as a prosthetic leg donated by a war veteran who fell in love with his physiotherapist.
In Berlin, an axe used by a woman to break up her ex-girlfriend's furniture, along with the broken furniture, was on display alongside a wedding dress and a pair of skates.
Every single object in the museum is anonymous, and has a short description of the relationship it was part of.
Tear-soaked teddy bear
...Vistica said the exhibition helps give people a place to get rid of, yet keep safe, emotionally laden items, adding that getting donations in largely conservative Singapore was not any more difficult than any other city.
“People are a little bit hesitant, but when they come and see the exhibitions, sometimes it gives them the courage to give something later,” she told Reuters.
From Singapore comes a brown teddy bear named “My Malay Bear,” which is all that remains of a failed romance between a Malay woman and a Chinese man who met in this multi-racial state where marriages between different ethnic groups are uncommon.
The woman kept her relationship a secret from her disapproving family and, unable to keep photos or other mementos of their relationship, only had the bear she received from her boyfriend as the sole symbol of their love.
According to the description tagged to the bear, nobody even noticed when she no longer kept the toy on her bed after breaking up with her boyfriend....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28540958/?gt1=43001 |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13268
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 10:31 am: |
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I would donate a 78" vinyl record of "Unforgettable" by Nat Cole, a song I played over and over after me and a college sweetheart went our separate ways.
We ran into each other years later and, from his reaction, he seemed to be more impressed with my personable husband than I was with his mousey wife... |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7652
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 10:54 am: |
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I think its best to put that crap behind you.
First girl I was ever in love with (at that classic age of 19) I thought I'd never get over her.
Frankly, I hated her ass and took it out on every female I met for a while afterward--probably screwed up what could have been some beautiful friendships.
Anyway, three years into "the rest of my life"--which I had planned to hold it against her for, so much horrible shit had happened to me that was much worse that I realized how poisonous this attitude was.
I wrote a letter to her. Nothing heavy. How you doing--hope you're good. She never answered--but all that was over when I mailed it.
I would donate a lock on the door and a sign that said "CONDEMNED" |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13277
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 06:27 pm: |
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Alas, Chrishayden. You're a character right out of a Shakespeare tragedy.  Weep not. the best is yet to come. |
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