Fifty or so years ago, my great aunt gave my father Abraham Lincoln's file. It's about fourteen inches long, and has a handle into which a metal file is inserted. Now, you're thinking..."That's cool...what's it worth?"
Nothing, I think, except fifty years of amusement.
You see, the essence of this file dates to Lincoln. But over the years, handles have split, and been replaced on the files. Files have dulled, and so they've been pulled and put into perfectly good handles. The file it its current form is old, and banged up, but I'm certain Abraham Lincoln never saw it.
But he had a file...and somebody got it...and passed it on from hand to hand.
So, here is the question that has stuck with me for fifty years. Is this, or is it not, Abraham Lincoln's file?
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