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+Name 3 tangible things you would bring with you if you were drafted.
+Talk briefly about their importance and why you would want them.
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+I practice minimalism actively. Most of the tangible things I use are
+interchangeable---pencil, paper, pen, cup, computer. I'm not very
+superstitious, so I don't carry anything for good luck or to ward off
+evil. I don't, in my daily life, carry anything that couldn't be, within
+a reasonably short amount of time be replaced by something else. My
+phone is probably the single least interchangeable thing I carry, but
+even it's not particularly unique. It could be switched with the same
+model within a couple of hours. I don't store anything on it that's
+unique to the device, so I could replace the device entirely within a
+day or less. I'd carry that, but it's of no symbolic importance.
+
+On the note of symbols, I have few if any but none important. I have
+no single thing or set of thing like Cross's letters, and I don't keep
+souvenirs. I might carry a deck of cards or a chess set, if I so chose,
+but it wouldn't hold any symbolic value---at least at the start. I like
+to believe that it would remain that way: whatever item I carry can
+interchange with any sufficiently similar item. And I think there's a
+good chance that whatever thing I carry would remain just that,
+utilitarian and nothing more. There's also a chance that I'd become
+attached to it, of course, but I find it improbable.
+
+Beyond those two archetypes---necessary tools and optional tools---I
+can't presently imagine any particular object which I would value deeply
+for symbolic reasons. For that reason, I imagine my third item is
+something I carry in error or by accident. I don't currently attach
+myself too strongly to anything, but that's because essentially
+everything with emotional value to me is physically proximal. The draft
+would certainly cause me to develop a symbol for something without
+intrinsic value, but I can't know what that thing would be, just like
+Cross didn't know beforehand that a one ounce rock would be something he
+carries.