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Fall in love with 'Unpacking,' a beautiful, simple story of how we live told via what we own

As I write this in my home office, which in these late-pandemic, work-from-home days is simply my bed, I can look at the nightstand on the left and see on one of its open-slotted shelves a giant bumblebee.

Its head has been sewn on at least twice, and it used to make a bell-like noise. It was one of the first plushies I remember having as a kid, and it moved with me through the years, only today it's not for cuddling — it's on display.

In the nightstand on my right is a rarely opened drawer filled with personal trinkets of the

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