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bdickens wrote:Another example of things that have a value far beyond their monetary worth:

My wife wears her Grandmother's wedding ring. The same grandmother who raised her as a little girl until she started school. The same grandmother who she was always very close to, and the same grandmother who my (now) wife was a caretaker for when she was stricken with Alzheimer's disease.

Not long before Polly finally had to be institutionalized, and she was pretty far gone, my (now) wife was caring for her as well as going through a divorce and having a generally hard time herself. One day, in an increasingly rare moment of lucidity, Polly suddenly got very clear and focused, turned to my (now) wife, looked into her eyes and said, "What about Byron? You always loved him," and then faded back away into the fog.

My (now) wife and I had known each other and been friends on and off for years, never even considering getting together ourselves.

That ring is not very fancy, and isn't worth very much intrinsically. But no insurance in the world could ever replace it.