In the dream, I'd gotten the album out of my dresser drawer to take with me to my friend Earl's and I was walking with it toward his house as I'd done dozens of times before.

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Not any USB stick, but a super-sleek 2GB and Que-branded USB stick sitting in my desk drawer.

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Keeping that in mind, I think one of my goals this year will be to never let my financial junk drawer look the way it did last month!

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Soon enough, this fast and beautiful smartphone is going to find a new life in a drawer that holds my spare change, sunglasses, checkbook and various receipts.

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My silverware also goes in a kitchen drawer, but that's another story for another time.

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That desk drawer, the one that might have held my unpublished manuscript?

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And then, as I grew into adulthood and began my own explorations into the bigger world, my image retreated to the hermetic world of an envelope in a desk drawer .

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For one store in my new quaint neighborhood of College Park, business has never been better: Top Drawer Consignments.

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My mother keeps copies in the family album, which is tucked away in the drawer of her china cabinet.

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My sister has an organized friend who comes over just a few hours each week to attack one closet or drawer at a time.

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