.  Hi, I am Grant Jones, Duquesne alum class of 2019, and I brought two objects with me here that are of great personal significance to me. So I'm going to kind of go in chronological order with this, and I'll start with this first one here. This was the food bowl of a Guinea pig that I had in my childhood. His name was Skipper and I, I got him when I was 10 years old and I remember I had really wanted a Guinea pig. I had a book about them and I, I read about them and I finally got one and I did not know, at the time, I didn't realize that you're supposed to have more than one and I only had the one. So, and he didn't have a buddy to hang out with, but we ended up getting really close and we would hang out all the time and I would, I would bring him out and I would put him on my lap and he would just like stay there for hours and then we would vibe. I feel like those kind of pets, like Guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rats, a lot of kids will get them and they'll just like kinda let them be in their cage and they won't really interact with them and they'll won't take care of them and they'll die really quick. But this Guinea pig was like my best friend, he was my life. And I got him right before my parents separated and eventually got divorced. So we moved into- my mother and I, and my brother and sister. We moved into an apartment complex and they were not allowing pets in there. And I remember my mom told me that she basically went and, and begged the head of this apartment building and, and said, “I have this weird little son and he has a Guinea pig that he loves and you know, this divorce is really hard on him and he needs to take this Guinea pig and-“ You know. Well eventually, I, I had him for about four years and it was right after we were about to move out of the second apartment complex we had been in, and we were going to move into a home and Skipper passed in his sleep. And we kept his crate and all his belongings and we moved into this house and it was, it's kind of small. We have a lot of people in there. So after a number of years, my mom got rid of a lot of the stuff that was in there and she got rid of a lot of Skipper’s stuff that we kept, and I, I wasn't too happy about that, but she made sure she wanted to keep one thing from me, so she kept this food bowl. But right when we moved into that house we got a dog. Her name was Katie when she was a little puppy. And Katie was a good dog. She was a very unique dog. She was a, a blend of breeds. We really knew - never like, knew what. She was a very smart dog, and she passed away in 2023, 2 years ago. So we had her for about 12 years. And when she went, we were kind of trying to split up her things to keep mementos. And I believe that my brother took her collar. And I said, well, I, I will take her food bowl, since I have Skipper's food bowl, you know, and, and now I'll have two of them. So I have her bowl here and there’s, there’s still some of her hair in it and you have this little tag in there. 'cause we had three dogs at the time. We're down to one now, but it says Katie's bowll in there, so we knew which one. And so yeah, I have these and I keep them on a shelf in my bedroom, so I always have a little piece of both of them with me. Pets are very important to me and just very grateful to have them in my life and then have these little reminders. So that's why, you know, these are both - you could probably go to any pet store and buy these for like five, 10 bucks, maybe 15 because of inflation. But they're really not of that much monetary value. But for me personally, I hold them in quite high esteem. And, you know, I, I feel like I'm lucky to have these things, to remember them by. So that's the story of these objects and that's why, they, they matter so much to me personally.