The coolest thing happened last night!
I was at Give & Take last night because I was asked to co-present on growing up in a small town. One of the people in the crowd was a girl named Kristine. I had met her last December on the church steps immediately following Andrew Bird's concert. She greeted Ben when she recognized him as the Give & Take host, and then Ben introduced her to me.
We went home then, and as I got ready for bed, I realized I had lost an earring. Always a bummer, but particularly sad this time because it was an earring I'd had since childhood, and a gift from my Grandma Helen. Black Abalone earrings she had bought for me in Mexico. I treasured those earrings, especially since she passed away about three years ago.
Cut to last night; a girl comes up to me at the event and reminds me she was the one I met outside Andrew Bird; she tells me she had really admired my earrings that night, even though she hadn't said so out loud. But that's why when she was walking to her car a few minutes later and saw one in the snow, she recognized it as mine.
She kept it since then, and brought it to me at Give & Take last night. I just want to say thanks to Kristine for noticing small details and being such a thoughtful neighbor! It made Minneapolis seem more like a small town.
