The Story Behind
"The night before she left home for university, her mum sat on the edge of her bed and didn't say much.
Just one thing: take care of yourself out there.
At the time she thought it was the most ordinary thing anyone could say. Barely registered it.
Later — studying, working, a relationship that fell apart, nights she couldn't hold herself together — she kept coming back to those words.
Take care of yourself out there.
It was the simplest and heaviest thing her mother knew how to say.
She understood eventually: it wasn't a reminder. It was an extension of a promise — I raised you this far. Now you have to live well for the both of us."
A snake chain: each link locked into the next — like the agreements that go unspoken but never expire. This necklace is for everyone who left home still carrying those words.
