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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 306775, member: 5833&quot;]Really laughed at this.&nbsp; Something of the sort happened in my own family.&nbsp; My maternal grandparents were married until my grandmother died in her mid-80s.&nbsp; Not much more than a year later, my similarly aged grandfather announced his intention to remarry.</p><p><br /></p><p>While he had dispersed most of his household goods, he had hung on to my grandmother&#039;s only good jewellery: engagement ring, a strand of pearls that were an engagement gift, &amp; a pearl &amp; ruby brooch that was a 40th wedding anniversary gift from the family.&nbsp; My mother&#039;s only sibling was a brother.&nbsp; It was fine by her if her sister-in-law was given the brooch, but I think she would have murdered if the pearls had been bestowed there or on a new wife.</p><p><br /></p><p>First intended died before marriage.&nbsp;&nbsp; At the age of 89, my grandfather married a woman of 59 (my mother was 60), but did give my mother the ring &amp; the pearls.&nbsp; When they came to me, I took them with me to find some matching pearl earrings.&nbsp; The clerk no sooner had the necklace in her hands than she declared the pearls artificial.&nbsp; After feigning outrage at the poor clerk, absolutely doubled over with laughter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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