Visual Writing Prompt: Treasure Troves

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Trolly Dmitri

For the twenty-first #augustbreak2014 prompt, “Treasures,” I first assembled the usual small bits of things, of which I have quite a few, from my own childhood, my son’s babyhood, and from my marriage. But I am impatient, and fussing with the composition of small items is not fun, so I turned to the one treasure that not everyone had: a large troll doll that my grandmother purchased for me nearly fifty years ago.

Trolly has been with me more or less ever since–she even came with...