“I put a picture of myself in everybody’s closets.”

“Have you ever purposely left something like a drawing in a public space to leave your mark? What was it?”

I’ve worked in [town name] for 10 years as a preschool teacher, and then I moved out to [town name]. What a difference it, it was, going from this huge metropolis to teeny tiny cow town. When I was leaving, I didn’t want anybody to forget me — not that I thought I was forgettable! But I put a picture of myself in everybody’s closets. I, I came back by probably about five years after I left to visit with everybody, and the one teacher was still there and she pointed to her closet, and my picture was still in there some five years later. I marked my spot.

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