All of it laid out on my aunt's bed. "This is her costume jewelry. Pick something out." My sister falling over herself at the chance to add my grandmother's pieces to her collection. Mute, I wanted nothing of hers. These earrings, they even felt haunted. "You're October," my aunt said. "You should have them."
No.
But I did. To please them.
Don't have them if you don't want them. Nobody needs something that haunts them.
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