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Himalayan Necklace - Oh the stories it could tell!

Do you ever wonder...? I bought a necklace  in India last year...  It is well travelled.  O h the stories it could tell!  L ike  W here was it made?  ( I was told it was local from the foothills of the Himalayas... ) W ho made it?  D oes she  (I n my mind it was made by a lady,  hopefully not a child...  and certainly not a man. )  E ver wonder who bought the jewellery?  O r think 'Where in the world will it will end up?' I fell in love with this necklace,  seeing it as a connection to our 16 year old son,  who was on exchange at an Indian boarding school,  and as a memory of  my Indian Adventures... Like the crazy twenty hour journey I took just to reach him...  On an overnight sleeper train from Jaisalmer  to Jaipur ,  leaving my girlfriends,  and travelling solo,  for a six hour train ride to Delhi. A mad taxi ri...