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Hand and footprints

The first palm kept in plaster: the frame, the stories and the right moment.

  1. StoryThe handprint in plaster: they’ll never be this small againWhen my third son was a week old we pressed his palm into a handful of plaster. That hand is bigger than mine now — but the print is still a week old. Why plaster and clay make such tender keepsakes, and how to start at home.

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