I Can't Get Rid of Anything

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I don't know that people send them so much any more. Where do you even find a stamp? In sotom of your purse, or athin else? It's amazing sometimes when gift shops have stamps at the cashier. We come home with bunch of postcards wherever we go, and we save themye. If for postcards that we, you know, just put our collected postcards from trips.

Why were postcards invented and why do they still exist? Why do we lie to people and say our lives are better than they are? Alie stopped into the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan and talked to curator of 40 years, Donna Braden, about her work with the postcard collections -- as well as her musings about how emotions impact memory, why Americans love to hit the open road and what the biggest postcard you're allowed to mail is. Listen while riding off into the sunset or sipping tea on a porch and then send someone you love a giant postcard because you can.

The Henry Ford Museum Postcard Archive

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