The Legendary Girlfriend.

"...The Exchange of the Carrier Bags - that curious post-splitting-up ceremony, where former lovers attempt to behave like mature adults as they return each other's belongings; records, hair brushes, books, etc., in a plastic carrier bag - it's always a plastic carrier bag - without falling apart."

When we Exchanged the Carrier Bags, I had a few big ones for him - mostly for the bears; mostly polar bears. They were not so much his per se, but mementoes of the relationship, which I couldn't bear to "abandon" in the garbage corner at the void deck to strange hands, where the part-time "garung gunis" AKA the residents of the block, are always lurking; and he didn't mind taking them away. There was also a box containing His Stuff and a few gifts that I saw no point in keeping.

He had only a half-filled Carrier Bag for me too. A. One. Uno.

When you put everything into a relationship, and it ends, you find yourself scrambling for Carrier Bags.