re: Souvenirs from places you visited

We have 2 clay teacups from a boat ride on the Ganges River in Varanassi, India. They're part of a Buddhist alter in the living room. Also 2 of the same from a Buddhist temple in Mandalay, Burma; we went there before the latest military coup. It's a tragedy what those people have endured. We saw a country full of optimism and hope, all gone now.

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They sell these there? I know you could buy a “piece of the rock”, and that money supposedly went directly to preservation of the place.

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I didn't pay.

I wanted a piece of Al Capone's cell. So I chipped some of with a rental car key