Rings on Her Fingers and Bells on Her Toes— Our Love Affair with Jewelry
6 min readNov 17, 2023
The stories we tell ourselves with pieces of metal and stone
When I was eleven years old, my great-aunt died. Hoo Hoo was my grandmother’s sister and lived with my grandparents. Losing her was my second devastating loss in a short period of time. In January of that same year, my maternal grandmother died from cancer. Unlike Mamaw’s death…
