'I Want My Fucking Pearls Back!'

Acknowledging the pain of loss, past or future, creates beauty in your life.

Monday Without Date (1968) by Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

The short version of this letter is that I lost a precious gift given to me by my boyfriend over the holidays. I don’t know how it happened. The bracelet was on my wrist in the Uber ride home from the airport after a girls’ weekend and four hours later, I got out of the shower and it was gone. I t…