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<p>[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 244323, member: 121"]I find the inscription/signature "Your Wife" rather telling............sort of like "Your Best Friend Forever" or the like. She was proud to be his wife, and he may have called her Wife...............there is no rhyme or reason that one can calculate without being a party to the relationship. </p><p><br /></p><p>It sort of like the pearl encrusted letter "D" pendant we found among an aunt's jewelry when she died. It took us years of mentioning it to friends and other relations before we found out it had belonged to her mother. Her mother's maiden name was Baer - her future husband's name was Bader - when he proposed, he gave her the pendant and asked her if she would allow him to add a "D" to her name..............but on it's own, a "D" pendant made no sense within the immediate family.................[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 244323, member: 121"]I find the inscription/signature "Your Wife" rather telling............sort of like "Your Best Friend Forever" or the like. She was proud to be his wife, and he may have called her Wife...............there is no rhyme or reason that one can calculate without being a party to the relationship. It sort of like the pearl encrusted letter "D" pendant we found among an aunt's jewelry when she died. It took us years of mentioning it to friends and other relations before we found out it had belonged to her mother. Her mother's maiden name was Baer - her future husband's name was Bader - when he proposed, he gave her the pendant and asked her if she would allow him to add a "D" to her name..............but on it's own, a "D" pendant made no sense within the immediate family.................[/QUOTE]
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