My Son Unpinned My Mother's Emerald

My son unpinned my mother's emerald brooch off my collar at my own birthday table and put it on his wife - "She'll actually wear it, Ma. You'd lose it inside a week." My brother had just driven eleven hours from Montana to give me that pin, and he started to stand up. I put my hand over his and stopped him, and everyone at that table thought they were watching an old woman get run over and take it. Three weeks earlier a certified letter had come to my house, and I had signed for it myself.