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If you were to die today—unexpectedly—what would your friends and family learn about you when they cleaned out your bedroom (or apartment, or house, etc.)? What aspects of your life that they might not know, or only those closest to you know, that could be discovered by looking at your personal space as it was? Not just secret habits, but personal rituals. Do you have a favorite drink on your nightstand? Clothes from your childhood in the back of your closet? A CD from a band no one knew you liked in your stereo?

This is an article published on May 7th, 2008. It will always be available — by itself — at this address.