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Date: 2020-07-09 07:54 am (UTC)
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He’s still unsure what he’ll do with all his menus. He keeps collecting, he says, as “a record of my travels and a record of my growth.” He thinks that they might one day have value as antiques, seeing as “right now, nobody is really collecting takeout menus.”

He ought to donate them to the Smithsonian.  People do that all the time; it's called "The Nation's Attic" for good reason.  They literally do not know what all they have.  (The ending scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where just one more anonymous crate joins the hangar-sized collection of same, really wasn't wrong…)

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