At first I thought, well I’m going to bring something that will go into the Girl Scout Brownie Museum of Life, to show sort of the history of girls in America. […] We did spray paint a lot of macaroni gold. […] One of the things we did was we got our photo taken and we very beautifully glued them onto a board and covered them with contact paper and we wrote “Daddy’s Little Girl” in gold. […] When my dad moved out to Connecticut with my stepmother, there weren’t really things of ours in that house. This was gone, it went away, and I knew it never made it [to that house]…. Until my dad passed, and my sister and I had to go through everything. We had to go through every drawer, and there in the very back of the sock drawer was that. Because where do we put those most valuable things? The things that are the most valuable are not always made of gold. […] In the back of my sock drawer will be this. I’m not sure what it is. [It says:] “It’s Mother’s Day […] You can’t read it, but this will go in the back of my sock drawer.

This belongs in the Back of the Sock Drawer Museum

Exhibited by Marcia

Transcript edited by Serena Washington