Kolya on 4/2/2014 at 21:31

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The good news is, they were found. Thirteen year old Anne gave them to a friend in a tin box for safekeeping, along with some other toys and her cat Moortje ("Blacky") before she and her family went into hiding in 1942.
Her friend gave the stuff back to her father who solely survived concentration camp and published Anne's famous diary. He ceded the marbles to her friend. That 83 year old neighborhood girl found them again while moving and donated them to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

http://i.imgur.com/WARC19a.jpg

So after reading these news I was looking at the toy of a young girl who was murdered long ago. I had exactly the same marbles as a kid. How odd.
I lost mine when growing up. (Where did they go?) Probably she would have lost them too by now. Or given them to her granddaughter. Maybe they should just give them to some kids on the street. If kids still play with marbles.
I always liked the transparent ones best, with the dippy colours embedded. I've once been to her house, but I never read her diary. I figure she wouldn't let me if she was alive.
Now I remember where my marbles went, usually into some gully.

Mr.Duck on 5/2/2014 at 01:33

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Marbles are indeed awesome.

PigLick on 5/2/2014 at 03:10

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Kids do still play with marbles, we have big jar full of em.

demagogue on 5/2/2014 at 08:42

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Touching to see this.

hopper on 5/2/2014 at 09:50

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Starting a thread just to play on a lame pun. What is Commchat comming to?

Btw, I also had marbles once. They ended up as slingshot ammo when I got a little older. Perfectly round as they were, they'd fly straighter than a pebble.