My Daughter Sold My Late Husband's Locket for $800 — Then the Pawn Shop Told Me It Opened

My late husband's locket was the only thing I had left of him, and on the third anniversary of his death I opened the velvet box and found it empty. My daughter said she sold it for eight hundred dollars because she needed the money for a vacation, and she said it in my own living room, in the house she had lived in rent-free for three years. I called eighteen pawn shops that morning before a man on Thomas Road told me the pendant opened. In forty-two years, I never knew it opened.