the mystical amber ring

[edenfalling]

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and now with corrected grammar


I posted a month ago about the ring and note my parents found in one of their bookcases, while doing some water pipe repairs. Here are the items in question.

I am confused by my mom's description of the ring as an 'amethyst sort of ring,' because it's pretty clearly orange-brown rather than purple. (Citrine, I guess. Which is what happens to amethyst when you cook it, but since this is obviously colored glass and my mom is a librarian rather than a geologist or gemologist, that should not be relevant.) I mean, it's still not amber, but it is amber-colored, which makes the description in the note much less baffling.

I rewrote the note partly to prove that I can do less painfully wrong archaic grammar, and partly for comparative handwriting analysis. Now that I've seen the hard copy, I strongly doubt that I wrote it. The subtle quirks look a lot more like Vicky's writing -- particularly the joining of the capital O and T to the following lowercase letters, the inward curves on the capital W, the lack of tail on the lowercase E in 'person', and the relatively tidy crosses on the lowercase Ts.

Now, it is entirely possible that this was a collaborative effort -- we played a bunch of very loosely structured games that, in retrospect, verged on LARPing -- and this might have been part of one of those. We did jointly compose a jewelry-based song around the relevant time period. (Well, I did the tune and 75% of the words; Vicky provided suggestions and insisted I add a second verse to include her birthstone since I'd featured mine in the first verse.) But it's also possible this was Vicky's solo project.

Unfortunately she doesn't remember the ring and note either, so I guess the truth will remain a mystery...

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[watersword]

I feel baby!you and baby!me would have gotten along splendidly.

[edenfalling]

:)