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This shell will always have a special place on our bookshelves.
It’s a memento from my Dad’s Basic Training days at Parris Island.

He wrote the date on the shell. I can see him walking the shoreline of Port Royal Sound and finding this treasure as he contemplated his next steps into WWII.

I’ve been wanting to preserve the shell as a journal sketch for the longest time. I can’t think of a better day… a more special day than today… to honor it forever 🙂