• Throwing away certain objects from our youth can be hard.
• For instance, the license plates from our first car.
• They can remind us of relationships with our parents.
• First cars also often remind us of independence and freedom.
• But we sometimes forget how bad those cars were.
• Nostalgia can be a useful process, but only if we remember the reality, the experience and the hope we had.

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