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Why Do People Keep Their Boarding Passes After A Trip?

Ordinary objects sometimes become archives of extraordinary moments.

Boarding passes become memory anchors because they connect emotions to physical objects. Their value is emotional rather than practical.

Most boarding passes lose their function within hours, yet many survive for years inside books and drawers. The paper is ordinary, but the journey attached to it is not. People think they keep boarding passes to remember trips. Sometimes they keep them to remember who they were when those trips happened.

Why do people keep their boarding passes after a trip?

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