13 Pencil Lead Memoir Collage

Memoir collage with antique papers, collage size approx. 4 x 6, matted.
Pencil Lead
Rather than take my sister to the hospital when I jabbed a pencil into her leg, breaking off the lead, my father warmed a bottle in a pan of boiling water and tried to create a vacuum to suck the lead out. It didn’t work. To this day the lead is in her leg.