We all came back for the funeral. All four granddaughters (and Richard) were in the same place at the same time for the first time of our lives. A-ma took out four real, gold necklaces and their respective rings. We drew short horizontal lines between four long vertical lines, blindly chose a line and put our names under them, and then unraveled the paper and followed our paths. The rules were that we had to turn into one of the many horizontal lines every time we hit one, and it would lead us to the necklace and ring that was supposed to be ours. I already had my eye on one I really liked, and even though I was the third to go, I ended up with it! Betty, Serena, and I all ended up with our first choices. Sunny didn't, but mostly because she didn't have a preference to begin with. A-ma mentioned how strange it was that Sunny got the "ugliest" one -- it was just a gold oval -- but it worked out so perfectly because she won't be wearing it anytime soon, and by the time she's at the age to want and wear these things, one of these things will happen again.
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