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Death and a Diamond Ring

08/31/06

saw my sisters
when we were shopping
for a larger diamond
to replace the original stone
in my engagement ring

we kept the original diamond
my husband’s great great
grandmother’s diamond
in her wedding ring

put it into a necklace
it’s really quite pretty

well, as I was saying
we bought a new larger diamond
for my engagement ring
and my husband was saying
he’d get re-
engaged to me
on the seventh
eight months before our wedding anniversary

well, we had all these romantic plans

and then I got a phone call
from my father
saying to come to visit quickly
because mom doesn’t have much time left

I arranged the flight
and my husband pushed forward
his plans to ask my hand in marriage again

the ring looks really pretty

but my sister said that it’s uncanny
“do you remember the big diamond ring mom has,”
she said
yes, I do
“dad got that for mom for their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary”
I didn’t realize that
“and her mom died
right around then”
she told me that her mother’s funeral
was on their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary
and she said it’s strange
that I’m getting a larger diamond
and mom is fighting for her life right now

well, I’ve got my ring
and my mother just died
and isn’t it ironic
how history can repeat itself


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