| The antique bracelet went way back to the | | | | |
| "old world," to her mother's upbringing in | | | | The family has since then fallen on hard |
| the area now known as the Czech republic. At | | | | times I'm sorry to say, they once had been |
| that time, the antique bracelet was the only | | | | quite well-off, and the antique bracelet had |
| true thing that could be said to of that | | | | reportedly been given as a wedding gift to my |
| value of her family's possessions. | | | | great ancestor by a nobleman. She at one time |
| | | | could actually lay claim to half of a rich, |
| When my grandmother passed away, she | | | | fertile region, and rode proudly on a horse, |
| bequeathed me her antique amethyst bracelet. | | | | surveying all she posessed, the antique |
| This antique bracelet, I later learned, had | | | | bracelet was one of many beautiful pieces of |
| about as many stories as she had, and that | | | | jewelry that adorned her person. |
| was plenty. Her amethyst bracelet had been in | | | | |
| the family for generations, as are the case | | | | In the antique bracelet was mysteriously |
| with many antique bracelets, an heirloom | | | | unaccounted for for quite some time. There |
| viewed as beyond all value, and cherished and | | | | evidence that there was some sort of a few |
| for generations to come. | | | | with a neighboring nobleman that may account |
| | | | for its disappearance. Apparently it was |
| The antique bracelet went way back to the old | | | | pretty bad, because there is a long and |
| world, to her mother's upbringing in the area | | | | elaborate record of the dead. As far as we |
| now known as the Czech republic. At that | | | | know, it became so there that even their |
| time, the antique bracelet was the only true | | | | manor was burned to the ground, and the |
| thing that could be said to of that value of | | | | antique bracelet was one of the items that |
| her family's possessions. Her journal spoke | | | | was destroyed by the fire. |
| of a beautiful amethyst bracelet, which her | | | | |
| mother would not even venture outside a house | | | | One of my ancestors became obsessed with the |
| with that on for fear of loosing it or having | | | | amethyst bracelet, and spent a great deal of |
| someone taken from her. My grandmother's | | | | time and effort trying to locate its, until |
| earliest memory is of watching the sun's rays | | | | the beautiful antique bracelet was hers |
| dance off the face of the beautiful antique | | | | again. She succeeded and I was glad. But it |
| bracelet, as her mother rocked back and forth | | | | was also rather foolhardy because the family |
| in her old rocking chair in her small | | | | itself was wanted by the other family to be |
| village. But the origins of that antique | | | | put to death after having come out on the |
| bracelet, that the one amethyst bracelet, | | | | short end of the feud, and spent such a long |
| predated her by quite a bit as well. The | | | | time in hiding that they eventually became |
| antique bracelet went back all the way to the | | | | peasants just like almost everyone else back |
| marriage of my great, great, great | | | | then, but the beautiful amethyst bracelet is |
| grandmother. I don't know exactly how old | | | | the last remaining remnants and of a once |
| that is but there sure are a lot of greats in | | | | proud and noble clan. |
| that one. | | | | |