Some Buried Facts About Birthstone Jewelry
The writer of the following article has referred to birthstone jewelry that her parents gave to her grandmother. Yet the writer herself has received some beautiful birthstone jewelry. She can still remember the gift her father gave her on her 21st birthday. He had to take a five hour drive north from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, just so he could give his daughter, a college junior, that special gift. The writer’s birthday had fallen on a Saturday that year. Why was that significant? It was significant because the writer’s birthday was again on a Saturday in 2006, the day when the writer became a grandmother.