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