No ceremony was planned and yet as we strolled across a local market in Ghana I knew this was going to be my wedding dress. One day. I took it off the shelf, tried it on, and told my then-boyfriend ‘This is going to be it’.
Sure. There was a time when the souvenirs I bought were something less useful. I have brought home an Eiffel Tower key chain. A replica of a famous church is still collecting dust on my parent’s shelf and a number of shot glasses are somewhere in the attic.
But those souvenirs have little to no emotional meaning to me. Apart from the shot glasses out of which I had been drinking at various parties, I haven’t even touched the other travel gifts.