My Grandmother has a friend named Linda. Both my grandmother and Linda did a lot of art and had a studio together. Sometimes, I would go there and help them out with some things. Linda had a son named Michael, he was her only child. During covid, he was 49, about to turn 50. Linda had planned to give a coin that was very rare and important to their family to Michael on his 50th birthday like her father did to her. It was called a Saint Gauden Coin and was given to Linda, by her dad, on her 50th birthday. Her father got it from his father when he went to serve in WW2. However, before he turned 50, he died of a heart attack. Linda and all of Michael’s friends and family were horrified. Michael had a wife but no kids, so Linda did not have anyone to pass the coin on to. A while later Linda decided to do something with the coin that she was going to give to Michael. She decided to break the tradition of giving it on the 50th birthday. She gave the coin to me for my Bar Mitzvah. She also told me the story of the coin. The gift meant so much to me and was the most meaningful Bar Mitzvah gift that I got.

– I

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