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<p>[QUOTE="Julie Gibson, post: 9823142, member: 87340"]Not saying you're wrong, but that would present an even bigger mystery. My Dad was very ill in the final decade of his life. The dressing stand was packed away many years ago. I know for a fact that I'm the first one to touch it since. The odds of a 20th-century pendant having been in there during the last 80 years would be astronomically low (Dad shunned organized religion as a rule. He didn't even want to take insurance on it a few days before he died. In fact, it's the last joke we shared.) Dad got in as a boy in the late 1930s, and it was kept at his grandmother's home in PA before then. Maybe my Dad was hiding a secret devotion to Christianity AND an illegitimate baby! (Thus hiding the kid's picture under his shaving stand.) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to say that I re-read your post (correctly this time). There may be a chance that a cross would have made it into the stand without it bursting into flames after 1900... Still, that would be wild. Thanks for hunting that down![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julie Gibson, post: 9823142, member: 87340"]Not saying you're wrong, but that would present an even bigger mystery. My Dad was very ill in the final decade of his life. The dressing stand was packed away many years ago. I know for a fact that I'm the first one to touch it since. The odds of a 20th-century pendant having been in there during the last 80 years would be astronomically low (Dad shunned organized religion as a rule. He didn't even want to take insurance on it a few days before he died. In fact, it's the last joke we shared.) Dad got in as a boy in the late 1930s, and it was kept at his grandmother's home in PA before then. Maybe my Dad was hiding a secret devotion to Christianity AND an illegitimate baby! (Thus hiding the kid's picture under his shaving stand.) :) Edited to say that I re-read your post (correctly this time). There may be a chance that a cross would have made it into the stand without it bursting into flames after 1900... Still, that would be wild. Thanks for hunting that down![/QUOTE]
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