[Jewelry making - Article 00022] - Re: [Orchid] Strange Customer Requests

[John Donivan]

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    This isn't really strange. A friend of ours who is a Mason referred
    someone to us for a repair. There's a knock on the door and the
    nicest, sweetest black woman of about 90 years is on the doorstep.
    She's a Rainbow Girl, which is the female side of the Masons, I
    gather, and she's going to the convention in Virginia or somewhere.
    She has a crown that she earned by her rank and years in the
    organization, and one of her grandchildren has broken it. She
    presents me with a potmetal crown - more of a tiara - with glass
    stones glued all over it, and painted with gold paint, that is broken
    in half. She's in tears, and I know that it's certainly her last
    convention, and maybe even her last trip of any kind. Something I
    would never in a million years even touch if it weren't for the
    story. So, I lead solder it back together, buy some gold paint in the
    hardware store, and make it like new. She picks it up, and I know
    that I've done much more than just repair a piece of cracker-jack-box
    jewelry. I heard later that she had left it in the elevator on the
    way out, but recovered it in the building office by good fortune. The
    people in the office told me how they were also affected by this
    woman - just a nobody, really, but the sort of person that makes you
    feel good about the human race. Often the best part of jewelry isn't
    the jewelry at all....... 

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