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[Alexandr Korol]

Now I have already asked the craftsmen to make it — there is, of course, nothing complicated about it. Although it is very surprising that throughout my whole life I had always seen this symbol, and I also saw it depicted within a circle, simply as an image, like on a coin hanging on someone’s neck. And I would just see this bone — it looks like the letter V. But how strange that I never knew what it was. I thought it was simply something decorative. But no — those people who were in the know, they were not buying it for nothing. And of course, this bone too — it is probably strange to depict such a bone somewhere on a T-shirt. That is, this symbol is better, if used anywhere, to be used only in some kind of jewelry. I will be making such a bone out of gold, and also a little pendant of silver gilded with gold. This is the wishbone.

Next comes the safety pin. There’s a funny story here: I was talking with an American friend, and he was speaking to me in broken Russian, showing me some shirts, and he said: “There are pins with stones.” I said: “I don’t understand, show me where there are pins with stones.” And it turned out that what he meant was buttons with stones. But this “pin” caught my attention so strongly, and then it began to be highlighted everywhere, and I realized that the pin was needed. And what is most interesting is that even when I began to google it on the internet, indeed, everywhere people unanimously write that it brings good luck, that it is a symbol of fortune. And when I began telling the guys, my friends:

— Can you imagine, in such a funny way the idea came to me that I need to make a pin with a stone.
— So what is that, a brooch?
— Oh, exactly, so that must indeed be a brooch.

And what is most interesting is that now the brooch is being highlighted for me every day, everywhere I look. Simply a brooch with the image of some creature, naturally. The last time, the brooch that was highlighted for me had a frog on it. Of course, no frog is needed, but the point is that it is not for nothing. A brooch is not merely for beauty, and in fact, a brooch is, let’s say,