F. 1: What does your suitcase have?

P. 1: My suitcase has a 1950s album in it, the ones that had the scratch paper in between so they wouldn't get ruined, and on the first page are the photos of my grandparents - three of the four I didn't know. It's the couple on Mom's side photographed. Mom on Dad's side has pictures of my parents, my brother, my own when we were young, has a notebook of my mom's, which is written with recipes measured in ounces, written in quill, because there were no pens back then. There was either the pencil or the quill, and to keep the pencil from being corrupted by time, it's written in quill again. And because my mom had very beautiful handwriting, but she had only gone up to second grade, it's completely misspelt. But that has nothing to do with it. It has my father's cigarette case and lighter, who was an avid smoker to the end, and it has a picture that my grandmother brought back in '22 when she left Istanbul as a refugee. It shows Orthodoxy, which apart from the monetary value has a family value too, because it is a fifth-generation icon and it goes from mother to daughter, not a boy. It started with my great-grandmother, passed on to my grandmother, my mother and me and I will pass it on to my daughter. And that shows continuity.