Found item #12:

Pam American airline’s complimentary storybook for child passengers

Found item #11:

“Empire Strikes Back—Mix or Match Storybook”

Found item #10:

“How come you do me like you do me, like you do me?”

The Cramps, 45 single

Found item #9:

“To stand up straight and tread the turning mill,

To lie flat and know nothing and be still,

Are the two trades of man; and which is worse

I know not, but I know that both are ill”

—A. E. Housman, “Twelve Poets”

Found item #8:

“Space travel makes you hungry—a hamburger please.”

View-Master Picture Reel: Huckleberry Hound Lands on the Moon

Found item #7:

“The dream is always the same.”

“Risky Business” video store VHS edition in vintage plastic case

Found item #6:

“If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.”

“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis; 1st birthday gift, 1973

Found item #5:

“In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions.”

Soundtrack to “The Breakfast Club” on cassette

Found item #4:

“Why is life worth living? It’s a very good question. Um… Well, There are certain things I guess that make it worthwhile. uh… Like what… okay… um… For me, uh… ooh… I would say…”

Original VHS copy of Woody Allen’s 1979 classic “Manhattan”

Found item #3:

“I can’t await until you’re in my arm. I’m gonna wait until I have your charm”

Jackie Wilson 45 purchased from a sidewalk sale in Park Slope, Brooklyn