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This item appears on page 23 of the October 2021 issue.
This month’s winner is CAROL PEIM, from Hendersonville, NC:
In March 2019 I was in Australia buying boulder opals. They are opals that are still encased in brown stone. I asked the owner of the store what the brown stone was called and she said, “Einstein.” I looked puzzled and asked why it was called that and she just said that that was its name.
When I went to another store and they asked if I knew what the brown stone around the opal was called, I proudly answered, “Einstein.”
She smiled and said, “Yes, that’s right, ironstone.”
Go figure accents.
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