Sterling

For a few years before Julia came home, I started collecting silver candlesticks. These days our house does not have sufficient storage to keep these close enough to use often, but I took them all out yesterday to wash and polish to use them on the Thanksgiving table. I like silver -- the shine on the table twinkling in fire light. I'd like to have a story for every candle stick. Maybe one that belonged to a maiden aunt, another from a grandmother who brought the silver from the old country, another which was a gift to my parents from a relative that they had never met. Instead, they are mostly from ebay with a few from a friend whose brother trolls estate sales for treasures.

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