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My six-year-old granddaughter stared at me asif she were seeing me for the first time.”Grandma, you are an antique(古董),”she said. "You are old. Antiques are old. You are my antique."
1 was not satisfied to let the matter rest there.I took out the Webster's Dictionary and read the definition(定义)to Jenny.I explained, "An antique is not only old, it's an object existing since or belonging to earlier times...a work of art... piece of furniture. Antiques aretreasured,"I told Jenny as I put away the dictionary. "They have to be handled carefully because they sometimes are very valuable. In order to qualify as an antique, the object has to be at least 100 years old."
"I'm only 67,"I renunded Jenny.
We looked around the house for other antiques, besides me. There was a desk that washanded down from rone aunt to another and finally to our family. "It's very old,"I told Jenny.“I try to keep it polished and I show it off whenever I can. You do that with antiques."
There was a picture on the wall purchased at a garage sale. It was dated 1867. "Now
that's an antique," I boasted. "Over 100 years old." Of course it was marked up andscratched and not in very good condition. "Sometimes age does that," I told Jenny. "Butthe marks are good marks. They show living, being around. That's something to displaywith pride. In fact, sometimes, the more an object shows age, the more valuable it can become.".lt was important that I believed this for my own self-esteem.
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