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| 120 Ring |
Acquired: Unknown
From: Grandma LoRaine's jewelry
Notes: I was looking for nice jewelry to wear to grandma LoRaine's funeral, and I found this one. At first I thought it was another piece of costume jewelry, but it had a stamp inside of '925' which I eventually located on Google as being sterling silver. So when we were at the funeral luncheon, I asked mom about it, and she said that it was one of Grandma's rings before it was mine. I was content to learn this because I felt it was respectful to be wearing something I effectively inherited from my grandmother at her funeral, so there's that.
My grandmother was a long time in dying. It might be a bit harsh to say that, but our first 'grandma's dying' scare was back when I was about 11, and I'm almost 28 now. A year or two after that scare it was concluded that grandma couldn't live on her own any more, and she was moved into various nursing homes. As part of moving her from the condo, mom and her sister (and possibly their brother, although I don't recall it) went through all of grandma's stuff. Some time after that--when we were old enough to appreciate it--mom let us granddaughters choose a ring or two to keep. This is not the ring I chose, which is why I didn't remember it as being inherited from that side of the family, so I guess mom gave it to me later on (or I was so lost in the shiny of the other ring [object 122] I forgot this one)
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