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by !Baha, 8 September 2009
Has anyone NOT seen a postage stamp?
Back in the days before text messaging, email and fax, people sent letters using postage stamps, and children collected those stamps and kept them in purpose-made booklets. This was exciting because it was a way to experience far away places and marvel at the images different countries put on the stamps. Often there would be interesting shapes, animals, flora and fauna introduced on postage stamps.
We can't help but wonder what might replace postage stamps, as a way for children to use their imaginations in visiting and experiencing places and things they have not seen - almost like a puzzle being put together, having pieces left only for the imagination - is a wonderful way to instill a sense of yearning, all the more meaningful when fulfilled.
Ahh! anticipation... (Add your comments below!)
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when I was a tadpole... :)
we had a collection of postage stamps, and to this day I still remember the names of those places with the most exotic stamps, not that I have ever been to those places, but because the stamps were so amazing - shapes like a rugby ball, with raised lettering, brilliant colors,...
those stamps were so exotic, I always felt that I'd want to keep those stamps forever
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~ Margaret (Mags)
'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'
Chrissy - age 6
when I was young, I used to
when I was young, I used to ask my mom if I could cut those stamps from the letters, and waited eagerly for her permission. Will she be angry or say no? Waiting for her reply made the seconds seem like hours.
And of course, she always said yes :)
But when you're a child so much of life is new and thrilling and this made collecting stamps so memorable for me...
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