80-year-old Samantha was a regular at the secondhand store. She enjoyed purchasing antique showpieces and furnishings to decorate the small home she lived in alone.
She went shopping one day, expecting it to be like any other day at the flea market.
Samantha sat in the store and looked around. Moments later, the antique shop across the street from the furniture store caught her eye.
Samantha was taken aback by what she saw when she first entered the antique shop.
“Oh my God! This can’t be it. Where did you get this?” She inquired, her eyes welled with tears as she pointed to a classic crimson pendant on the mannequin.
“Please…can I see it?”
“Sure, here you go… That’s $40, but I’ll give it to you for $5 less…” The vendor smiled.
Samantha flipped the pendant several times and couldn’t hold back her emotions.
“I found it…This belonged to my mother!” she exclaimed, tears endlessly streaming down her face. “From where did you get it?”
“I don’t know, but my dad told me that someone sold it to him several years ago… It had not gone on display because my dad kept it at home. After he died last year, I cleared the attic and found it there. So I put it up here for sale.”
Samantha couldn’t believe her eyes. “I’m getting it!” she said, and as she went through her bag for the cash, she heard someone enter, followed by a loud voice:
“I’ll pay double its price…Please give it to me…I want it at any cost!”
Samantha was astonished. She turned around, only to gasp in surprise when she saw a woman who looked like her.
The two women stared at one other for quite some time, unable to comprehend their striking likeness.
“Wha—What’s your name? I’m Samantha…And you?”
“I’m Doris!”
“And why would you want to buy my mom’s pendant?”
“This is my mom Dorothy’s pendant… We became very poor after my dad left my mom, so she sold everything we had to make ends meet, and this pendant was among the heirlooms she sold. She sold it to a man, but I don’t know how it reached here.”
“Let me show you,” Doris answered, pulling out an old, torn photo of Dorothy wearing the pendant and holding a small girl on her lap.
This is unbelievable! This is my mother, and this is me with her,” exclaimed Samantha.
“No, that’s not you…THAT’S ME! We’re twins!” replied Doris, stunning Samantha.
Doris was actually Samantha’s twin. Their parents, Dorothy and Michael, had a difficult marriage and divorced when Samantha and Doris were just one year old. They split up, each taking one child to raise individually.
“I think it was God’s will for us to meet like this today, thanks to mom’s pendant!”
Doris was touched and moved to tears. Samantha purchased the pendant and placed it around Doris’ neck.
