Reply #60: No problem, KC2. This turned out to be a longer thread than expected.

[Radio_Lady]

I guess it's not exactly guilt -- it's just a feeling, as I have explained before.

The pearl necklace is a choker style, pretty common in the 1960s, but I now have a long strand of pearls which I wear single, double, or even knotted, if you know what I mean. My husband bought them for me at the Honolulu airport when I mentioned to him that I wanted them!

I have probably worn the original pearl necklace no more than a dozen times in the past forty or so years.

I just need to decide what to do with it. Maybe this has more to do with the fact that a former lover of mine died earlier this year at age 80, then I learned my second husband, now age 70, will not see his next birthday as he has terminal lung cancer. I've been thinking a lot about "the finality of things" this year -- for example, I finally signed up to be an organ donor as instructed on my Oregon driver's license. It probably just goes with the territory when you get to my age.