Do you keep an old, single book from your past as a personal treasure?

I have a book called "Sarah T. portrait of a teenage alcoholic" it's a biography/diary of a young girl. i don't know why i still have it really. i guess maybe because my father was a drunk. anyway, i read it first when i was in 5th grade and just never got rid of it. i still read it every few years and i'm 33 now.

I always keep the books that interest me the most and i dont know how long i have had some of them. However, there was a book i loved as a little girl but i never owned it so a few years ago a christmas time my mom hunted a copy down and got it for me. I thought it was the sweetest thing and i still think its the cutest book ever. Its called The Littlest Angel and i cant remember who its by.

I havent kept this book, but I loved it as a child and my nan bought if for me a couple of years ago "The Magic Faraway Tree" by Enid Blighton. Ill keep that til i have kids now!

One of my favorite books from childhood was Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls. I think I must have read it in elementary school but didn't track down my own copy until much later. When my daughter became interested in reading, I loaned her my well worn copy and she enjoyed it as much as I did.

Hello DMwell. In fact, I am still keeping many of my textbooks used at college in my cupboard though I never read them. Those books are getting yellowish. They have been kept for two decades. Also I have some even older picture-books which were bought when I was a kid till when I was a teen. They mean a lot to me as they can also remind me of those days when I was a kid and college student. They are part of my wonderful memories.