After returning from a wonderful trip visiting friends of 66 years, I was unpacking. When it came to my jewelry, I realized a turquoise earring was missing. It was special and represented so many wonderful trips I had shared with my husband. It was a witness to many adventrues and in many photos. It is an earring. And now lost. What decides the value of something? When younger the stuffed animal left me by the Easter Bunny and forgotten at a roadside rest stop is ver