My twin sister, Lisa, and I both got our ears pierced when we were 16 years old. And ever since that time, we have enjoyed gifting each other with earrings. And so, when I travel, I am always on the lookout for interesting earrings -- for myself and also as potential gifts for others, including my sister.
Several months ago, when I was in Venice, I purchased a beautiful pair of Murano glass earrings for Lisa. And I gave them to her when she visited the week-end before Christmas. She liked them a lot, and she put them on the very next day. They looked great.
Later that morning, however, tragedy struck. We were in the kitchen cooking together, and I noticed that one of Lisa's earrings had fallen off! We immediately started looking around the kitchen. We looked all over the floor. We looked on the counters. We looked in the sink. We found nothing. Later, Lisa retraced her steps to the bedroom and looked all over the floor there, and in her suitcase. Nothing. It was gone! How could it just disappear? Lisa was was really upset. For the rest of the week-end, I found myself repeatedly pausing to search for the missing earring. Lisa was doing it too. But it never showed up.
Lisa traveled home on Sunday but, come Monday morning, I was still thinking about the missing earring. Where could it have gone? I worried maybe it had fallen into the trash, or down the disposal. I emailed Lisa and asked her to tell me absolutely every room she was in on Saturday morning. I was going to make another, really thorough search. This time, she mentioned an area of the house that she had not mentioned before. She had been on the back porch to get something stored there. This gave me someplace new to look.
When I got home that night, I made a beeline for the back porch. It was dark out, but I put on the overhead light and started looking around. I focused on the deck -- which is made of wood planking. And there it was! It was stuck in the gap between two of the wood planks. It was actually wedged there. Wow. I found it! I was so thrilled, I called Lisa right away.
Ten days later, I saw my sister, and I returned the earring -- along with a package of 200 earring backs!
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