The only thing approaching the pain of losing someone you love is losing the keepsakes.

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Judy wrote a letter to the local paper, pleading for the return of their keepsakes.

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But in the last decade the company's business has moved more in the direction of Hollywood keepsakes.

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Gone are the small gatherings at home and cheap keepsakes such as the 21st key to the door.

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They are all still in the packaging, which could make them valuable keepsakes.

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The coin is a souvenir medallion from former LAPD Chief William Bratton, of a type often given out as keepsakes.

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Creating Keepsakes sponsors cruises and three-day seminars for up to 750 people.

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There are certain keepsakes, Claudia Williams said, that she elected not to include in the auction because of her personal affection for them among them love letters that her father wrote to her mother, Dolores.

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We can collect them as keepsakes, though.

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