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But they don’t tell you that the time will come when you stare into the cupboard where the “Elmer the Elephant” plate used to be kept and feel a small but insistent stab of loss.

From The Wall Street Journal

They don’t say that you will mourn this garish and ugly melamine plate—which you rashly gave away during a clear-out—as if it were a dead pet.

From The Wall Street Journal

They don’t tell you that—missing this plate and other related accessories of toddlerdom—you too will become someone who meets new parents and feels an urge to warn them that it all goes so fast, as if the warning could somehow stop the onward rush of time.

From The Wall Street Journal

There was a page where Elmer balances an orange and a lemon on his trunk—“Don’t drop them, Elmer!”

From The Wall Street Journal

They don’t wish to sully this artistic institution and its history by participating in its seizure by a man whose ego is so large he insists on branding everything in sight, as if it’s the only way he can be sure he even exists.

From Salon