Liz Sumner and her husband wanted to move to Italy, but they had no family there and no Italian heritage, so Liz was worried that they’d have trouble feeling like they belonged. She joins us to tell us about a memento they found in Italy that helped her put those worries aside.

Jeff keeps an empty rum bottle from the day of his best friend’s funeral 20 years ago. The bottle is a snapshot in time, but Jeff has a more “ethereal” memento from his friend that has ebbed and flowed with the changes in Jeff’s life.

Bréjean finds a folder of her deceased grandmother’s poetry tucked away in a closet and learns that she has a lot more in common with her “prim and proper” grandmother than she thought.

Jared meets his match in an aggressive little Senegal parrot named Cricket, who ultimately charms Jared and changes his life for the better. Jared keeps a large scarlet macaw feather as a memento of the relationships in his life that led to his becoming a “flock leader.”

Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Before receiving the letters, she knew almost nothing about him. She hadn’t even seen a picture of him. But the letters unveil who he was and the fateful decisions he made that affected not only his life but also still affect her life today.

Crystal Chandler finds the perfect memento of her grandfather, a former Seventh Day Adventist preacher, to bring with her when she moves to New York.