The voice on the other end was cautious, and not without cause. But Mara took a deep breath and narrated her story. She told the woman that even if she did not want his birth mother to reappear like a ghost in their midst, she should at least tell him about the necklace and its value.
Though words failed her, Mara kept saying how she had lost her two most valuable possessions on that fateful day at the adoption agency—one knowingly and the other unknowingly. She told of how she had discovered its worth, serendipitously, through a TV news item.