Photos with nowhere to go

Have you had this unsettling experience of getting a bunch of pictures, old birthday cards and stuff you'd sent a relative back when they are dead? I got a little box yesterday full of framed pictures and photos that I'd given my mother over the years, and she kept it all because she loved to see her family, even if only through pictures.

I used to send her photo postcards, and all those came back, along with my letters I'd sent through the years. I hate to see this stuff again because it means she's not there anymore to keep them close to her.

And I already got a bunch of stuff back when my mother's mother died a few years ago. So in some cases I have three copies of the same framed photos with nowhere to go.