"You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and nails and bottle caps and jar lids – the drawer of jar lids! Why? Because they're made of metal and maybe there'll be another war and we'll need the metal. A friend of mine – I quote him in the book – says, 'You have found the source of the river eBay.'"

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Source : " Life drawing to a close: my parents' final year" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

Roz Chast

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