The First Year Bracelet (Pearl Strand) was made for the widow whose wedding pearls are in a box and whose daily pearls are in a drawer — the woman who needs a third kind. The Tuesday pearls.
The bracelet is a fine sterling chain threaded with small rice-shaped freshwater pearls, 5 to 8 millimeters. Warm, tactile, slightly irregular in shape because real pearls are. Nothing about this piece is formal. It's meant to be worn on ordinary days.
When I imagine you wearing it, I imagine book club on a winter Wednesday. You're twisting it around your wrist during the discussion without noticing. You realize it's the first time you've worn pearls in two years without crying.
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