I'm sure you have an extraordinary aunt. Everyone does. I mean extraordinary in a many ways...but most of all because she offers something different to your life. Maybe she's an artist who spot welds and makes sculptures out of old mufflers. Maybe she collects porcelain dolls (which she names and displays in a special room in her doily-ridden home). My extraordinary aunt is extraordinary for many reasons. When I was little she sent me pictures of her children playing soccer in Guam and little mud dolls from Spain. She taught me how to make an angel food cake from scratch and how to fry pizza dough for the most amazing pizza ever. For my 9th birthday, she took my sister and I to the Happy Hollow Zoo followed by a shopping-spree at the Berryessa Flea Market. It was an adventure I will never forget and I still treasure the rhinestone necklace and earrings she insisted I couldn't live without. (I'll occasionally try them on and just as if I was 9 years-old again, they make me feel like a princess.) Somehow I always believed her when she told me I was beautiful even when I would otherwise be less convinced. She is magic. There's a little bit of magic in this offset silver poppy necklace with turquoise beads...something special, something different; just like your extraordinary auntie.
