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The Keepthings

A VCR TAPE OF JANE FONDA’S WORKOUT from the 1980s.

An orange finger puppet in the shape of an octopus tentacle.

A black and silver artificial larynx.

Visitors to the Instagram journal The Keepthings can see and read about all of these objects…plus so many more.

Deborah Way was an editor at for 15 years, until the print magazine closed. In April 2021, she launched with the subtitle “stories of the things we keep to keep our dear dead with us.” She asks potential contributors to submit the story of an object and the person

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