they belonged to someone who valued subtle expression, someone who communicated through objects rather than words?
Or had they been part of a tradition now forgotten, their significance lost as generations passed and customs faded into obscurity? The longer I held them, the more they seemed less like objects and more like fragments of a story that had been paused mid-sentence.
Seeking answers that I could not find through observation alone, I brought the box to an older relative who had known my grandmother during her earlier years, hoping that