Kate Pogue Rau: Aside from pets and my daughter, I'd grab the gift she gave me for my birthday last year: A vessel with dozens of strips of paper, on each she's written something she loves/admires about me. Having just emerged from the terrible teens, this gift means the world to me.
Barbara Douglas: Computer with photos. Did have to evacuate 29 years ago in a firestorm. Threw blue recycling bin at my oldest — 10 years old — and told him to grab pictures. He started taking stuff off the walls and I yelled ALBUMS!! We left with cat, dog, blue bin and kids.
Casey Smith: The letters from the White House sent to my son for the 20,000 soaps he made for the homeless. I hope he preserves it and passes it on to his great-grandchildren one day. Everything else can be replaced
Jasen Riley: My laptop. It holds all my photos of my child's birth and growing years. Only thing that really matters to me are the memories I may have forgotten and one day would love to relive.
Amanda Rose Ashling-Sammons: My father's cremated remains. He passed away Feb. 28 and we haven't been able to inter him yet because of COVID.
Alice Lyon-Webb: If we are talking about stuff, I would grab my teddy bear. I'm 33 and he still sits on my dresser.
Alison Eatough: The piece of my dad's barn that I broke off before the barn was torn down. It's the most important material thing I possess besides my memories of him.
Ian Warren: I would strap my piano to the back of my car and have someone drive while I play like a maniac!
Susan Stratton: Nothing. I'd run around in circles trying to decide what the one thing was I should grab and fail. I'd end up grabbing a box of cereal or something. ♦
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