We Chan kids are a funny lot, we laugh, we cry as we recall the times when we were kids. Memories exude such fondness for each other.
When I was 20 months old, Father went to England on a P & O liner. At each stop, he bought souvenirs. We all remember his black elephant. When the ship stopped in India, he bought a black teak elephant. Dad was a collector, he bought a souvenir every where he went.
Elizabeth asked her daughter Jeng to email us if any of her siblings remembered it. I even jokingly accused her that so it was her who stole the Elephant. Some remembered it was made of teak and the tusk of ivory, another that it had a broken stump.
Actually this wasn't the original elephant. Elizabeth's daughter in law Rosemary bought it in Cambodia, because her husband Wayne must have spoken about it very often.
I have 2 elephants, because I remembered that elephant. One, we bought it in a duty free shop in Bangkok. The water engineer took it to his office in Singapore. He didn't bring it back to New Zealand.
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The other is an ornamented Sri Lanka elephant. This I treasure because my friend's husband died prematurely and left her and her 3 kids in a foreign land.
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Now part of the family lives in Australia. I saw this in Brisbane.
These are panels of a letter holder. When my friend Joy left to live in New York, she gave it to me. Now it is something to remind me of our friendship. I hardly have hard copy letters.
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You're a collector too, with elephants from all over with histories so meaningful.
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one doesn't forget one's elephants!
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The Mama has 2 elephants made up of tiny ocean cone snail shells. They bring me smiles and thoughts of whimsy. :-)
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Great collection of elephants. Carver, ABCW-Team
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