The Necklaces

Journaling Reads:
It’s an added bonus when ones’ daughters are also ones’ friends. As my beautiful girls have grown
into young ladies, we are able to relate to each other more and more on an adult, friendship level. They
are both quite social and have busy lives now that they’re in college and have lots more friends, and even
though we are not around each other as much as we were when they were in high school, now are times
are filled with talk more like friends would have. When we adopted our first daughter, Christina (on the
right), I worried that she would feel left out a bit, as there were very few Asians in our community. She
was a sweet girl who made friends easily, but since I grew up with sisters and wouldn’t have traded it
for anything, I wanted my daughter to have a sister too. Although my girls are quite different in their
personalities, they share a love for each other that is heartwarming.

When they graduated from high school, I wanted to give them something that showed our shared bond as
mother, daughters and friends. When I came upon these necklaces on a Korean shopping site, I knew I
had found the right gift. I ordered necklaces for them with their original Korean names, custom-made,
and a necklace for myself, which says “Mother” in Korean. I hope that no matter what happens in life, or
how far we may move from each other, we will always remain good friends. - May 2005 -