LRT: This is tangential, but this makes think about how women's jewelry, often given to them as gifts by family and often dismissed by men as Silly Girls Liking Shiny Crap, were actually a socially acceptable escape hatch from bad situations and relationships.
They could be pawned at a moment's notice for cash their husbands didn't have to know about, in an age when women weren't allowed their own bank accounts.
Time and a lack of education related to women's liberation obfuscates the hell out of this.
And it gives the scene you see in movies and novels so often of dewy-eyed, elder female relatives pressing their old rings and necklaces into the hands of young, engaged daughters and granddaughters take on a whole new facet.
"I never needed this. I hope you don't, either."
"I never needed this. I hope you don't, either."
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