Sometimes I like to occasionally buy a little necklace or ring here or there, but no piece of jewelery I have ever owned compares to my grandmothers brooch and earrings she left me before she passed away. While elephants aren’t particularly my favorite animal, they were hers. I remember going to my grandparents house when I was a little girl and spending what seemed like hours staring at all her little elephant figurines on the shelf in their living room. After a while she noticed I had taken an interest in them and started to give me some of my own to collect. Pretty soon I had my own little collection and it was something we bonded over. My grandma was probably one of the most caring and loving people I have ever known and when she passed she left me with some of her most treasured items, but I am reminded of her the most when I put on those earrings or the matching brooch and it gives me such a happy feeling knowing that I still feel a close bond with her. She passed in 2003, and there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about her. I miss her dearly.

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