day 2 (even tho it kind of looks like day 7)

"Ok, ok, I won't call her yet. You think Grandma had a box to pack stuff in? Maybe there's something in the building I could use."

Marya's grandma had some shoeboxes in her closet - most of them with the shoes inside, because Marya the First thought it was better for the shoes if you stored them in their boxes - so Marya emptied them of shoes and filled the two biggest with picture frames and knicknacks and the few pieces of jewelry her grandma had brought with her. Marya's dad, who was not as trusting as his mother, had strongly suggested that Marya keep her grandma's good jewelry in the house, so as to avoid tempting anyone at the assisted living complex. Marya never wore any of it, and her grandma never asked for it, but there wasn't really a lot of good jewelry to begin with. Marya the First wasn't much of a jewelry wearer - she had a strand of pearls and matching earrings, a pair of diamond studs, a couple of gold bangle bracelets, a really nice gold watch with a delicate band and sapphire chips around the face, and a diamond tennis bracelet that Marya's dad had bought her when she turned seventy.

( But all that was at the house. )

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