“These aren’t an old treasured item passed down in generations but I find myself wearing any jewelry my mom gives for long periods of time. I rarely take them off resulting it to be kinda gross and starting to rust.^{{ 1 }}

My mom is a very hard working person and she has been by my side all my life and I’ve looked up to her. She rarely treats herself to luxury items and when it’s passed down to me it has a lot of value and she would always emphasize that.^{{ 2 }} Her exaggerations to her efforts to buy these items as a small business owner has been engrained into me. Therefore I never want to take them off because I want to be like her one day :)” Elizabeth Park
2019