A few weeks before my Dad passed away, the director of the nursing home where he and my Mom live called to let me know that my Mom’s wedding band had fallen off her finger. She had it waiting for me to take home as the residency doesn’t like their patients to keep valuables in the bedrooms. She also told me that she had quite a few wedding bands sitting in her office drawer waiting to be picked up by loved ones. It was a common occurrence.
I’m a modern and simple sort of person. I don’t own gold. When I graduated from art school my Mom gave me a delicate gold necklace with a little diamond in it that was truly very pretty, but just not ‘me’. I wasn’t into gold then. I didn’t think I was into gold now. But, this wedding band looked lovely next to the silver ring I wear on my wedding finger with a hunk of wood on it in honour of my wood-cutting husband.
Then my Dad died. Eventually, the funeral home called me to tell me that they had his jewellery waiting for me. When I dropped in to pick it up they handed me a black velvet bag. In it was his Roots watch, his silver and turquoise ring, his simple silver modern bracelet and his wedding band that looked exactly like my Mom’s ring; a simple band of gold with a tiny row of five diamonds in it set in white gold .
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