Name: Ali Meyer
Place of Origin: SHS
Description of Clip: swirled, blue
Other: English class

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would end, I'd still plant my apple tree."

"Don't be attached to the outcome!"  How hard this is!  I question it often as well.  How can I not?  How can I not care about what happens to those I come into contact with?  Isn't caring & attachment the same thing?  Maybe it's not, but it feels like it.  And so, when the day came and I crossed paths w/another that had bee...
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Name: Natalie Jones
Place of Origin: SHS
Description of Clip: yellow treble clef
Other: geography class

Natalie Jones wrote an essay for a sophomore english class at SHS.  She decided to turn it in as a STORYclip because it is a real story that could represent her life.



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Name: Tessa
Place of Origin: Bus #9
Description of Clip: small, pink & white
Other: given to Megan on bus ride home

While riding school bus #9 home, a young girl named Tessa saw Megan carrying a bag of paperclips in her hands.  Tessa asked what they were for, and then wrote her name on one and asked if she could be in the chain.  This is her clip.

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Name: Natalie Ahlemeier & Justin Stieneker
Place of Origin: League Stadium
Description of Clip: small, blue

Natalie Ahlemeier and Justin Stieneker work the Old School Café concessions at Dubois County Bombers games. At one of these baseball games, the two used this small blue paperclip to create a few memories.
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Name: Leah Diekhoff
Place of Origin: Terra Haute, St. Mary of the Woods College (band camp)
Description of Clip: striped, black & yellow
Other: band camp 2012

Found at the dorms on the St. Mary of the Woods College campus by Leah Diekhoff while experiencing band camp 2012.

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Name: Unknown
Place of Origin: Windmill Chill
Description of Clip: pink
Other: storm, ice cream

Business at the Windmill Chill (Holland ice cream shop) was fairly slow due to thunder and lightning. Rain was on its way.  Just before the storm began, a young woman with rich black hair pulled up and purchased a medium chocolate ice cream cone.  Noticing a red basket full of free paperclips at the order-placing window, she picked a pink one to find out what this STORYclips revolution might be.  Unfor...
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Name: Sidney Eckert and Megan
Place of Origin: Target; Evansville
Description of Clip: small, silver

Sidney and Megan found this paperclip outside the doors of Target in Evansville while shopping.

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Name: Andrea and Megan
Place of Origin: OFS, cubicle
Description of Clip: Standard, silver
Other: used to fix stapler

Andrea and Megan used this standard silver paper clip in attempts to fix a jammed stapler.  Their attempts were futile, so they gave up and decided to add the clip to the chain instead.  As far as we know, the stapler is still jammed to this day.

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Name: Leah Diekhoff
Place of Origin: Windmill Chill
Description of Clip: red, standard & large, purple
Other: taken from "opportunity box" outside the Windmill Chill order-placing window

"I may seem to you, like an ordinary Paperclip.  Just another accessory, I am not ordinary.  I am so much more.  I have a meaning and a job.  A job to connect.  If you compare me to a person, I am much like you in many ways.  I added another paperclip to this chain.  You may do the same if you wish.  Though it is...
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Name: Ann McConnell
Place of Origin: Dubois Lanes bowling alley
Description of Clip: red, standard
Other: given as a birthday gift to Megan Diekhkoff

Ann McConnell gifted this red paperclip to Megan Diekhoff as a birthday gift.  This took place at a semi-surprise bowling alley birthday party.



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Name: Emma Mundy
Place of Origin: Emma's Piano Room
Description of clip: pink/red, square(ish)
Other: Found on piano

At Emma's summer party, she, Katie, Kari, and Megan were singing songs and playing the piano.  During this time, a container of paperclips spilled onto the keys.  It was decided that one should be added to the chain.

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Name: Megan Diekhoff
Place of Origin: OFS parking lot
Description of Clip: small, silver
Other: found on the way to work

In the summer of 2012, Megan began her part-time job at OFS Brands.  On her way into the building with Jason Diekhoff, she found a small silver (and dirty!) paperclip on the pavement.

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Name: Aaron Sloan, Rachel Starling, Megan Diekhoff
Place of Origin: Quint cabinet inside Mr. B's band room
Description of Clip: Standard, silver
Other: Found while cleaning out the quint cabinet

On the last day of school, Southridge High School percussionists worked to clean out the marching drum cabinets.  When Aaron and Rachel found a standard silver paperclip in the bottom of the cabinet, Megan asked for permission to add it to the chain.

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Name: Ann McConnell
Place of Origin: Miss Meyer's Room
Description of Clip: Yellow Treble Clef
Other: Given simply for the chain

Ann McConnell was present when Emma Mundy contributed the "large angel" clip.  Annie wanted to give a clip, also. She found a yellow treble clef paperclip that Megan Diekhoff had originally given to her for her birthday and donated it.

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Name: Emma Mundy
Place of Origin: Miss Meyer's Room
Description of Clip: Large, angel
Other: Given simply for the chain

Emma Mundy contributed the "large angel" paperclip. Megan was telling her about future possibilities for the STORYclips community and Emma had one on hand to donate.

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Name: Jason Diekhoff
Place of Origin: Windmill Chill
Description of Clip: blue, standard
Other: Similar to the blue paperclip on Megan's shirt.

Jason Diekhoff gave Megan (his daughter) the standard blue paperclip one day at the Windmill Chill. He had noticed Megan wearing her blue paperclip on the end of her shirt and thought it was a trend. This was not the case, but it was making progress within the realm of paperclip ideas. The once "worthless" blue paperclip became meaningful.

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Name: Judith Diekhoff
Place of Origin: Unknown
Description of Clip: Large, purple
Other: Gift from "Gram"

The large purple paperclip was gifted to Megan Diekhoff by her grandmother, Judith Diekhoff.

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Name: Megan Diekhoff
Place of Origin: Bethel General Baptist Church
Description of Clip: Angel, purple bead
Other: From Rita's Sunday school class project.

This paperclip is in the shape of an angel.  Megan Diekhoff made it during Rita Clem's Sunday school class at Bethel General Baptist Church. This guardian angel is the first paperclip on the chain for two reasons: It was created before any other clip on the chain and it will "watch over" all the STORYclips to come.
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