When Abby Van Metre turned 18, she wanted an iPhone. Instead, she got ... a box?
She remembers plopping down on the living room floor of her Cedar Rapids, Iowa, home a few days after her birthday, next to her dog, and staring at the aged brown container. It had been her great-great-aunt's jewelry box. It was over 100 years old and had been passed down to Abby's grandma and, now, to Abby.
But she didn't know what was inside.
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