The necklace sparkled in his hand as he took it from the box and showed it to her. They wee sitting at a table in a fancy restaurant, where he reserved the table and presented the gift to make up for the time he had spent away. She admired it, and then looked at her father with tears in her eyes. It would never be enough.
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It wasn’t a dainty thing like he’d seen in the cities, bright silver worth a lifetime’s amount of gold, it was crude chains linked together to nestle right on top of his collar bones.
The necklace sparkled in his hand as he took it from the box and showed it to her. They wee sitting at a table in a fancy restaurant, where he reserved the table and presented the gift to make up for the time he had spent away. She admired it, and then looked at her father with tears in her eyes. It would never be enough.
It wasn’t a dainty thing like he’d seen in the cities, bright silver worth a lifetime’s amount of gold, it was crude chains linked together to nestle right on top of his collar bones.