easy · Act reading
Passage: Grandfather kept a battered tin box on the highest shelf of his workshop, and as a child I imagined it held treasure. When he finally took it down on my tenth birthday, I leaned in eagerly. Inside there was no gold, no jewels—only a faded train ticket, a child's drawing, and a single brass button. He held each item as though it were precious, and slowly I understood that to him, it was. These were not worthless scraps but the keepsakes of a whole life, each one tied to a memory he could not bear to lose. The narrator comes to understand that the objects in the tin box are:
- valuable antiques that could be sold for a high price.
- meaningful keepsakes that hold deep personal value for Grandfather.
- ordinary scraps that Grandfather had forgotten about.
- gifts that Grandfather intends to pass on to the narrator.
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