I have a tiger's head she carved as a young woman. In a house fire it's probably the first thing I'd rescue.

That is wonderful. Thank you.

We have a bust of my mother, age sixteen, that my grandmother did in plaster. It used to sit in my grandparents' TV room, in the window with the jade plants and cacti; now it's on the dresser next to the mirror in my parents' room, and occasionally there's a hat on top of it.