The Golden Pocket Watch

The golden pocket watch had been in Tabitha Walker's family every since the 1800's. The pocket watch had been handed down to the oldest child on their 18th birthday generation after grneration. Since Tabitha was the eldest she was next in line to receive the pocket watch. The day of her 18th birthday her mother sat her down and presented the golden pocket watch to her as a birthday gift.

When Tabitha turned the packet watch over she knowested that there was an inscription engraved on it. The inscription read "I will love you forever my dear." Tabitha asked her mother who was the first person in the family to own the pocket watch. Her mother was unsure but she told her that her great grandmother would know the answer to that question.

The next day Tabitha went to visit her great grandmother to inquire on the pocket watches origins. She brought the pocket watch with her when she visited her. She arrived at her great grandmother's house to find her sitting in the garden drinking tea. Tabitha walked up to her and sat down pouring herself a cup of tea.

Tabitha laid the pocket watch on the table and when she did her great grandmother reached over and picked it up. She examined the pocket watch as if searching for a feeling, her eyes fixed up the inscription. She looked with great longing at the time piece, lost in thought. After a few moments Tabitha spoke breaking her great grandmother's trance like state.

The legend of the golden pocket watch began on the thrid of December of the year 1800. That was the day Harriet Walker first meet Josephine Green at the home of a mutual friend. The moment that Harriet meet Josephine she found herself instantly smitten with her. Herrit found Josephine to be quite intriguing.

Harriet made any and all types of excuses to go call upon Josephine after that meeting. Jpsephine was quite repceptive to Harrit's advances she too found herself quite smitten with Harriet. At first their encounters were quite innocent but then after a time they became much more intimate affirs. Harriiet spent many nights over Josephine's.

One day two years later Harriet gifted the golden pocket watch to Josephine for their two year anniversary. A month later while they were out they came across this abandoned little baby girl who had been left on the side of the road. They took the baby girl home with them and they ended up taking her in and rasing her as their own. They named the baby girl Blanche.

Blanche grew up never knowing that she had been abandoned by her birth parents. She grew up thinking that her father had died and that her mother Harriet and her close friend had taken care of her together. Than on her 18th birthday Harriet and Josephine sat their daughter down and told her the truth behind their "friendship." The news did not come as a shock to Blanche she had suspected as much for sometime now. As a birthday gift they gave Blanche the golden pocket watch as a symbol of their love for one another and for her.

A few years later Blanche ended up getting married to a man she had known since childhood. They set up home on her mother's property in order to be close to her family. A year later Blanche gave birth to a baby girl they named Fannie Walker. Fannie was brought up to believe that love was love no matter what the case may be.

When Fannie was 18 her parents gifited her the golden pocket watch. Ten years later Fannie got married and than a year later she gave birth to a daughter named Rose. 18 years later Rose was gifted the golden pocket watch and so on and so forth. Than a generation later it was passed down to Tabitha's mother Sara. Than another 18 years later the same pocket watch was gifited to Tabitha on her birthday.

THE END....

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