Pan Flute

Object No. 47 of 50 -- Significant Objects v2. PHOTO: Adrian Kinloch

[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Deb Olin Unferth, here. Part of a special collaboration with Underwater New York, this object's story will ship rolled into a vintage bottle found on the beach of Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn. Proceeds from this auction go to 826 National.]

I was an ambassador once—of a small African nation. All of us diplomats, that is our dream: to be an ambassador. At least once, at least for a...