When I was younger, Grandma Vellys would let me go through her vanity drawers. (you know the one with the round spinning seat?) I would find all kinds of treasures.... necklaces, powders, pretty bottles (remember the blue ones?). She would let me try on all of the jewelry and it was a blast.
One day I thought I had hit the jackpot! I FOUND GOLD!! Sheets and sheets of GOLD! Now, I thought my grandparents were rich, but to just keep SHEETS OF GOLD laying around in a drawer??? That is some serious kind of rich. I carefully took the gold (which was wrapped in special purple paper) out to Grandma where she was laying on the sofa. She was getting a little kooky by then, but I thought she must be REALLY crazy to leave gold in her drawer! Boy, was I disappointed when she knew all about it and told me that it was called gold leaf that she had used in some of her china painting. Just to prove her point that it wasn't worth the millions that I had assumed (and because she was a little kooky by then) she proceeded to gold leaf the REMOTE CONTROL and HER OWN NOSE!! It was so funny. Man, I love her. And I still miss her... I put the gold leaf away and every once in a long while I would get it out and just look at it. Gold that was so thin and so many sheets... and a part of me wondered if Grandma really knew what she was talking about, because it sure looked like a million bucks to me.
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