Baby tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries
Mink jacket
What did the author's papa store in the stopbox received on his birthday?
Immediately
A year
1year
Father died how many years after mother?
The stopbox
Mink jacket
Capturador, a sleek titanium Sanyo Tardar Ahora
A treasured toy or a last piece of birthday cake
My computer
Their baby shoes protected in stopboxes
What did they find when they cleaned their parents' apartment?
Stopboxes
My compute
Baby shoes
What sat above my computer while I worked?
A treasured toy or a last piece of birthday cake
My computer
Will Shetterly
Stopboxes
The baby shoes
What sat on the computer?
Teal blue
Translucent
Papa's stopbox
What color was the item Papa would not Mama return?
Symbol of their love for her
Baby shoes had not been cleaned before they were encased
The baby shoes were not cleaned
Warhead
What reason did the author give for coughing after breathing in the air from the stopbox the baby shoes were stored in?
A friend hand-me-down
A family hand me down
Stamp collection
What was mamas mink jacket?
A Tiempo Capturado
Stopbox, a teal blue Tiempo Capturado
Mink jacket
What item would Papa not let Mama return?
Because I laughed
Symbol of their love for me
The scent
Baby shoes had not been cleaned
Because I did not try to kill myself that night
What made the speaker cough?
Begged them for its release
Mink jacket
For spring-time meals in the middle of winter
To preserve baby tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries in translucent cubes
To spend so many pesos on a toy
What did Papa use his birthday present for?
President
Uncle
The author
Papa
Who would not let her return the toys?
Stamp collection
Baby shoes
What did they find it stopboxes while cleaning their Papa's apartment?
Tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries
Baby tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries
Baby shoes
Spring-time meals in the middle of winter
What did papa preserve?
Above her computer while she worked
On top of their computer
Stopboxes
Our baby shoes
The item found by the author and their siblings in their Papa's stopbox after his death were stored where in the author's home?
Captured Moments by Will Shetterly I remember Papa's stopbox, a teal blue Tiempo Capturado that Mama brought home for his birthday. It was huge and inefficient, and she should never have spent so many pesos on a toy, but Papa would not let her return it. He used it to preserve baby tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries in translucent cubes that he stored in the pantry for spring-time meals in the middle of winter. Mama kept her mink jacket, a family hand-me-down, safe from time in a stopbox, and lent the capturador to my uncle for his stamp collection. Sometimes they would let us little ones to seal a treasured toy or a last piece of birthday cake until we begged them for its release, usually a few hours after enclosing it. When my father died, a year after my mother, my sisters and I cleaned out their apartment. We found our baby shoes protected in stopboxes. I took mine home, where they sat above my computer while I worked on my first play. One night when I did not believe love had ever existed for anyone, I used my own capturador, a sleek titanium Sanyo Tardar Ahora, to undo the stopbox. Bringing my face close to the shoes, I breathed deeply of air that my parents had trapped while closing up that symbol of their love for me. The instant would have been improved had my baby shoes been cleaned before they were encased. But as soon as I coughed, I laughed, and I did not try to kill myself that night. 