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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 370155, member: 136&quot;]Thanks so much, TallCakes! Wow - that first one really looks mighty familiar!</p><p><br /></p><p>I am now more confused than ever. I KNEW that my grandfather gave me those bottles, and I was pretty darn sure they were new at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re not going to believe this, but after seeing your post, I actually pulled out&nbsp; my old teenage-years diaries and went looking for confirmation of what I remembered. I used to write down just about everything. (Wow - interesting reading!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I was off a bit on exactly when I got the bottles (I thought it was later than it was,) but it seems to have been at the end of my first year in boarding school.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve transcribed a bit of that diary here. (June 19th probably would have been about when I got home from school for the summer.)</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="3">June 19, 1970</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p><p><i><font size="3">...</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p><p><i><font size="3">Gerry Smith has finished redoing my bedroom! I now have a dressing table built into the little alcove next to my closets. Gerry said the room is too dark, but I like it that way. Mom put a big mirror over the dressing table because she says it will reflect the light from the nearby window. I&#039;m just glad she didn&#039;t let Gerry paint the paneling.</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p><p><i><font size="3">I can&#039;t say I like the fabric Mom used for my curtains, the bedspread, and the skirt on the dressing table, because I&#039;m really not all that fond of green and pink, but I do have to admit it does look pretty! The redo was a surprise, and I didn&#039;t have any say in picking out the colors or anything else. I think I will learn to like it.</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p><p><i><font size="3">Pop surprised me by getting me a new pair of “dresser bottles” at (name of store redacted). Mom said he really did pick them out himself, although she went with him. I put them on Grandma&#039;s old dresser tray, the one with the gold edge and the mirror, where I keep my perfume and little boxes and things. I had the blue and white striped ones that were Grandma&#039;s before, but I guess the colors wouldn&#039;t really go with the new color scheme, anyway. I wonder where Mom put them?</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p><p><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p><p>Just for the record, Gerry Smith was a carpenter who did a lot of work for my Mom (who was an interior designer) and &quot;Pop&quot; is what we always called my grandfather, who died in 1979.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m pretty sure the store where these were purchased did NOT sell used/antique items, so it&#039;s still a mystery![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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