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Many people want to leave their stamp on the world, and early in the 21st century, Walt Disney World offered its visitors the opportunity do just that. According to Disney, Epcot's Leave A Legacy Sculpture is "a tribute to a unique moment in time - the dawning of the third millennium." Purchasers could contribute their images to this "unique artistic expression" that is currently displayed in the main entrance to Epcot , right in front of Spaceship Earth. Since the sculptures have been erected, many people have called them an "eyesore" and there are rumors that they may be moved. So you may wonder who in their right mind would have paid good money for their image to be displayed in a 1 inch by 1 inch tile among half a million others. Well, back in 2006, my husband and I were walking into Epcot and somehow became convinced to do just that. While my memory of the actual purchase is a little sketchy (I have no idea how much they cost, or how we decided to do it), we did purchase two tiles: one with our name and date of purchase and one with our images. At that point in our lives, a trip to Disney World was still an occasional event, and we mostly forgot about the tiles once we purchased them. At some point after our trip, we received two transparencies in the mail with the image and location ID for our tiles. I slid them into a drawer and didn't think about them for a while. Our next trip was in 2009, but we did not even think to check them out. Over the years, our Disney World visits became more frequent, and I eventually remembered our Leave A Legacy tiles.