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　　he would make little sandwiches and we’d have tea parties. She’s plant flowers and carefully tend them. I remember the small thimble she would use while doing her needlework. Placing her thimble on her finger she’s remark: “I wouldn’t want to sew without one.”

　　A few years ago when my grandmother passed away, I bade farewell to a loving grandmother.

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　　We had just had tea together a couple of moths earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much, but I noticed it particularly on my birthday, as there was no card from my grandmother. She’d never forgotten my birthday!

　　On one particular birthday when I was feeling a little low, something happened to make me feel like she was sharing that special day with me.

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　　They are what she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow. It was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam that I carefully opened, and to my delight out came a tiny silver thimble!

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　　Not realizing it had fallen off her finger, she sewed it in that little pillow that I just “happened” to fluff. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others I’ve collected over the years, where I could continue to see the gift God chose to reveal to me.

　　What a precious memory of a very special lady who somehow, I knew, was delighted to sew her thimble inside my pillow!

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