keep:  everywhere she went, every experience she had, she would try and take a thing to add to her collection, to help her remember. a feather, a rock, bones of a bird. the things she kept, or the act of keeping them, became more important than the things they were supposed to remind her of.  or more simply, the collection became so important that the only experience she had to save tokens was the act of collecting.  the things she had to take to remember her collecting were the things from the collection itself, but this time they were once removed, signifying the thing kept and the act of keeping.  her life became sifting through boxes, collecting things from her collections.  she forgot their names or original purpose, forgot everything except a desperate instinct to remember, to collect, to keep, and keep the same.