Ten Years In · Natural Pearl & Agate Silver Necklace

The Story Behind

"They'd been married ten years. One day her husband came home with flowers. No occasion. Not an anniversary. He just walked in holding them. She blinked. ""What's the date?"" ""Nothing,"" he said. ""I walked past the flower shop. I wanted to."" She put the flowers in water, went to the kitchen to start dinner, turned her back to him. Her eyes were warm. Not because of the flowers. Because it had been ten years, and she'd thought this kind of thing was finished. Before she got married, a friend told her: marriage is passion ground down into habit. That night she thought: maybe. But whatever's left hiding inside the habit — that's the thing that's still alive. Not grand gestures every day. Just him walking past a flower shop, thinking of her, buying a bunch." Pearl and agate — two different materials finding each other, with the particular steadiness of something that has settled over time. This necklace is for love that can still surprise you after ten years.