They are a perfect set. Karin is thrilled at the find. Sally Ann is the giver that keeps on giving and today is like a birthday. Karin picks up the bone china cup marveling at the Yves Klein blue of it, there is a circle of gold where it sat on the saucer, a gilded target for perfect placement. There is not a scratch or chip anywhere to be found. Karin’s hand shakes slightly, she pushes the two pieces of the set together, stilling the one against the other. It would be tragic to break them here. She would buy them anyway, well she’d have to because of the “You break them, You buy them” policy, but she would have brought home the shards and bits and painstakingly put them back together.
Karin loved to imagine the lives of the people who owned the discounted crystal and china she found at the Salvation Army thrift store but this set, this set she knew. She knew them like her own flesh and bone.
8 min on 4.4.13
quote overheard at The Salvation Army Thrift Store, Bloor & Margueretta
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