I had been doing Caroline\u2019s hair for almost four years.<\/p>\n
She was wealthy, always perfectly dressed, and usually arrived wearing jewelry that probably cost more than my car.<\/p>\n
A few days after one of her appointments, she called me crying.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I lost my earrings at your salon.\u201d<\/p>\n
She described them as small diamond drops with an unusual clasp.<\/p>\n
I promised I would look.<\/p>\n
After closing, I checked under chairs, behind cabinets, and even inside the laundry bins.<\/p>\n
Finally, when I moved one of the styling tables, I found them.<\/p>\n
I called Caroline immediately.<\/p>\n
She arrived less than twenty minutes later.<\/p>\n
The moment she saw the earrings, she grabbed them.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. These are mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then she stopped.<\/p>\n
Her face changed completely.<\/p>\n
She turned one over and stared at a tiny engraving on the back.<\/p>\n
I asked what was wrong.<\/p>\n
Caroline sat down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese weren\u2019t supposed to still exist.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought she meant they were valuable.<\/p>\n
Instead, she told me they had belonged to her younger sister, who died many years earlier.<\/p>\n
Caroline had given the earrings away after the funeral because looking at them hurt too much.<\/p>\n
Years later, her husband unknowingly bought them from an estate jeweler and gave them to her as an anniversary gift.<\/p>\n
She had recognized them immediately but never told him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kept thinking maybe it was somehow meant to happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Then she looked at me and laughed through tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now I almost lost them again.\u201d<\/p>\n
I handed her the little pouch I had placed them in.<\/p>\n
She hugged me before leaving.<\/p>\n
After that day, she stopped referring to them as her diamond earrings.<\/p>\n
She simply called them \u201cmy sister\u2019s earrings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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