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Originally Posted by Sciencewoman
You have a big heart.  I don't think I would be able to view this situation with the same generous spirit. I'd be bothered by the fact that she wanted to keep my father's badge...50 years later and she wasn't my mother/the woman he married, and by the fact that she didn't want to get her own badge back in return. |
sciencewoman- I would have been bothered by the fact if she HAD wanted her badge back and did not want to give up my fathers... but the simple fact that both had had each other's pins for 50+ years all I could think of was the memories that they must have carried for each other. I like knowing that I own something that meant so much to my father that he didn't throw it away and that she feels the same. Imagine how crushing it would have been to find out she didn't have my dad's pin or worse that she had lost it or thrown it away. I know the pin is where it is safe and cherished. She knows the same about hers. My mother was never in a GLO as she went to an all girls college and the badge would have meant nothing to her- she probably would have tossed Dad's pin years ago during spring cleaning had she ever been in possession of it- ha ha ha.... my parents were married for 41 years and were deeply in love with each other. I look at the pin not so much as a symbol of "old love" but as a fond memory of a happy time in each of their lives.