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He was a pretty interesting person, and the most interesting about him, his elephants. Of course not real elephants, who could afford that? Made of any material, could be wood, ceramic, glass, metal, anything you can think about; He really loved them, he once told me they brought good luck, I still don’t believe that. Going into his office at work, the first thing you could see, any of his many elephants he kept, there were like a hundred of them. All of them with a particular characteristic, the trunk always facing up. He said that special thing about them brought good luck, maybe it did, who knows. Whenever we went to a trip, to anywhere in the world, no limitations, he never came back without a new elephant. Maybe it was just a tradition, or addiction of him, or maybe they really did mean something more to him. The reason behind having so many elephants is still unknown to me, it could be all about the good luck he though they brought or something deeper than that. I remember all the talks we had, we were very close, he told me all would be mine and I had a right to them. An image of my grandmother yelling at him for buying more elephants, she really didn’t want the whole house full of them, but she didn’t win anyways. Now he is gone, and the elephants are still there, making me remember his soul, all the good he had in him, because that is really what I feel when I see them. Now, whenever I go to a new place and see elephants I look back and think about him. He would like to have them, so why shouldn’t I? Whenever I see one it’s now something special, related to him. The meaning they had to him, still unknown, but for me the meaning is wanting him here. That feeling wishing that we could be together again, looking at elephants all around his office or house, and laughing, spending time together, it really never goes away. The image of that obsession he had with the elephants, how he always wanted to have different ones, the characteristic of their trunks, his particular behavior; it is all now related to the elephants, wherever and whenever I see them. I feel grateful to have sort of a symbol or image that reminds me of him, almost everyday.