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Deddens doesn’t really collect vintage anything anymore, but she does have one weakness: rocks. “I think I have an eye for these things,” she says. “When I sit down on a gravel driveway or a rocky beach I always find something I really like. I lose sight for everything else.” Among the specimens she showed us were four perfectly-round eroded rocks she spotted in Brighton and Rye, plus these two — the heart is natural, as far as Deddens knows, while the pattern on the left will be immediately recognizable to anyone who’s seen the cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. “It’s Meatwad!” she marvels.