Silver Christmas Chain

After 9/11, a chance purchase connected a woman to someone who changed her ...

13.09.11

During Christmas dinner, the Baltimore widow, then 75, told her family about the items she had found in the suitcase. She'd used the address label on the magazine to write to the suitcase's previous owner, offering to return the religious items and the earring. A beautiful silver crucifix. In a jumble of luggage in the corner of the store, she found exactly what she wanted: a nearly new Travel Pro carry-on bag. The kind of suitcase flight attendants favor. She would be returning in January, and she thought to buy herself an extra piece of luggage. The luggage key, still in its box. An earring decorated with angel wings. It was the song "Greensleeves" that drew Shirley Dempsey-Kahn into the Goodwill store that December morning. The kind with a handle and wheels and an expandable compartment.

Source: Sacramento Bee