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I love Princess and the Frog, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast pins. I have side collections too many to count. I’m a Disney Renaissance movie girl and have a few pins from each movie hiding somewhere. I will go crazy for mystery collections that I like even buying 10 boxes at one time to complete the set. But not a single pin in any of those categories is my most sentimental pin.
My most sentimental pin is
Wait! Sarah likes Maleficent? This is the only Mali pin that I own outside the odd one from a mystery set. Even if I sold off or traded away all my collections, this pin would remain because the person who gave it to me.
Let me tell you the story:
My sister (TangledUpInIce) has 4 boys. The second youngest, C, has always been more shy and less likely to interact with cast members than the other kids. In summer 2015, the family went to WDW when he was five. We all picked out a Hidden Mickey set (or two) that we wanted to find except C. This was the summer of the Hidden Mickey Candy Apples and Princess Cell Phones so the search was serious. C would watch while everyone would pin trade but rarely did he talk to anyone or trade.
We had eaten breakfast at Kona cafe - Tonga toast is a family favorite - when the kids spotted a cast member with a green lanyard by the upstairs gift shop. It was toward the end of the trip, and they didn’t want to trade their pins so they asked me for pins. I gave each one (including C) pins so they could trade. My niece and older nephew were both trying very hard to see who could finish the apples first.
The green lanyards were for kids so the adults stayed back a few yards, and let the kids go talk to the cast member and trade on their own. The kids talked to the cast member and traded before walking back to us. C usually brought back the pin I gave him or put it in his pocket instead of trading though he liked being next to his brothers and cousin when they traded.
Instead of giving me back the pin I had given him, he gave me this pin. He said he traded it for me because it was big and shiny. He was so proud that he traded for it for me. I really adore this pin and it’s on a bulletin board that I see everyday.
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