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#while wider general area had many sites of recovery for the big celebrities like tyrannosaur and multiple dromaeosaurs
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#thinking of dinosaurs and troodontids were my favorite dinosaurs as a child
#when younger i had a real full troodontid tooth fossil that meant a lot to me
#for a time we lived within a few kilometers of hadrosaur sites and troodontid sites
#while wider general area had many sites of recovery for the big celebrities like tyrannosaur and multiple dromaeosaurs
#at that time troodontids were kinda infamous for i think the depiction in some childrens field guides and dino books
#which depicted like a fantasy speculative humanoid troodontid based on 1980s model at Canadian Museum of Nature in ottawa
#anyway would visit a small local paleo center a lot and woman in her 70s or 80s ran the counter of their center and rock shop
#one day she asked me what my fave dino was and i said troodon so she pulled out the tooth and just gifted it to me
#in little black case size of ring box with padding and transparent plastic viewing cover kinda like laminate for displaying a trading card
#tooth got stolen from out my vehicle while giving some people a ride while at university before i got too poor for tuition
#later during first year of pandemic owner of my storage unit died and new property owners threw away everything i ever owned
#i was homeless anyway lost job due to early pandemic closures and had to allocate any money to insulin and other prescrip meds
#but wouldve found a way to save my things if the new owners had contacted me
#they threw out photoalbums y backpacking gear y books y musical instruments y clothes y artwork y camera y all family keepsakes
#and all childhood treasures like souvenirs and gifts and school awards and writing portfolios and all the little memories
#which i was always sentimental about as child
#from earliest age my room looked like a natural history museum with plants and maps and library of field guides
#and rocks and field trip keepsakes and all kinds of little animal figurines and mother had painted room in forest greens and browns
#to feel like a forest and among the succulent plants and a globe sat the troodon tooth
#parents passed when i was a child
#never near any family and were always moving never got to settle into proper stable place then father passed after long sad illness
#and mother put in so much effort but she passed few years later and i could not take care of myself or my remaining material possessions
#and so im still quite hurt having nothing whatsoever remaining of my childhood or school friends or mother or life generally
#and when trying to process grief my thoughts often come back to the troodontid tooth as a focal point a distillation of what was lost
#even when young i knew it was advised not to become too connected to material physical possessions
#but still there are some small little trinkets in our lives that seem to hold so much meaning and i tortured myself for losing that tooth
#thinking about troodon reminds me of childhood
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