Engaging Introduction

Let me tell you about the small object that sat unnoticed in my grandmother’s sewing basket for decades.

It was brass, slightly tarnished, with tiny dimples covering its surface. As a child, I thought it was just a weird little cap—too small for any finger I knew. I’d put it on my thumb, wiggle it around, and then toss it back into the basket.

I never asked where it came from. I never wondered why it had those tiny indentations. I never knew that thimble had traveled across

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