Keepsake Layers That Will Not Separate

Case overview

Anna brings a box of family keepsakes to the kitchen table on a rainy Saturday, planning a quiet afternoon with her nephew Theo. They laugh over the box's old labels until Anna tries to lift one glossy layer and finds that it will not come apart cleanly from the next. Only some of the layers have changed. Theo remembers moving the box once, but neither of them can remember where it spent the rest of the year. Anna does not want to make the problem worse by guessing. Which pieces changed, what touched what, and where did the box spend the year? Another group of keepsakes may help them tell whether the change is limited to a few layers. Anna leaves the layers together while she and Theo decide what to examine first.