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When my grandma Mabel passed away I was given two of her treasures. One was a set of her vintage Roly Poly pastel-tinted glasses and the other was her 1956 Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book. I loved those glasses. I have many memories of my parents and I driving over to Grandma's house in tiny Lafayette, MN on a Sunday evening for dinner and 60 Minutes. On the visits that we didn't bring dinner along, Grandma might serve us frozen pizza from the local gas station, or a hot dish and dessert from her freezer ("I hope it's not too old"-said Grandma...every time). I feel like we always used those colored glasses. When not in use, Grandma kept them on display in her China cabinet. I'd admire them on every visit. After her funeral, the glasses were boxed up and taken along with many other of Grandma's unclaimed belongings to the thrift store. My mother, being tipped off by my sister, returned to the thrift store the next day and asked if they s