Artifact 2

Most days, I wear two necklaces: a purple sun pendant, and a grayish moonstone pendant. 

Both necklaces are very important to me, but the gray moonstone pendant is something that reminds me of home. I’m very close with my grandmother, and she gave me the silver chain which holds the pendant. The pendant itself is one I got at a store in Lakewood, my hometown, called Lion and Blue. The day I bought it was when I was getting ready to leave for Ohio State. I walked to Lion and Blue on an early August day, and the sky clouded over as I walked and it began to pour. I didn’t mind, though. It smelled sweet as I walked and I was cooled down by the rain. Once I walked into the store, I saw friends and acquaintances old and new, all laughing and talking to one another. The store clerks were chatting with the customers and their children, playing games with the children and reading storybooks to them. There was a certain feeling of happiness, contentedness, and community in the air that I realized I was going to miss from Lakewood. Although Lakewood has 55,000 people, it somehow feels like the perfect mix between a suburb and a city. People are always walking down the street, talking and laughing with one another, but there’s a quaintness and quietness that always falls over the town at night. Every day this necklace reminds me of how grateful I am for Lakewood and the childhood it gave me.

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