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21 June 2012

Cross-stitching, like tattoos, should never include names This morning at Value Village I saw a cross-stitch depicting pink roses and ribbons and blue birds and featuring the words, "James and Amy, United in Love August 16, 2003." Do you suppose James and Amy got tired of the cross-stitch or that they are no longer united in love?

post by: Orange Swan at: 17:08 | 10 comments

How big was it? Maybe they were just tired of having it take up space in their closet. Or, yeah, I suppose they could be over.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 21 June | 17:17

About 10" x 14". It may have been a wedding present they decided they could now safely get rid of.

posted by Orange Swan 21 June | 17:20

Maybe they died.

posted by Hugh Janus 21 June | 17:35

Maybe they moved on to tattoos.

posted by mullacc 21 June | 18:01

When I was married, my husband's sister went to one of those pottery places and made a "family" pot that had everybody's name on it, including all the in-laws like me. I often wonder what happened to it. Did they glaze me out?

posted by JanetLand 21 June | 18:28

James was killed by a falling jar of pickles at Sam's Club and Amy used the settlement money to move to Vancouver island to study shamanism.

posted by arse_hat 21 June | 18:33

It's actually a coded message planted by a sleeper cell. All will be clear soon.

posted by drezdn 21 June | 20:45

In a far corner of my storage shed (it really is an 8"X6" shed sitting right next to my apartment - the rear unit of a triplex), there is a cross-stitch my now-ex and I received as a wedding present from one of her friends with the exact same wording, but our names and the date "June 21, 1986"... OH CRAP... today would've been our 26th Anniversary... NO thanks for reminding me...I mean, I don't HAVE to remember the Anniversary anymore, do I?

posted by oneswellfoop 21 June | 20:49

It was a gift from James's uncle Bob for their wedding. Amy always felt weird around Bob and James, after some psychotherapy, stopped defending him when Amy suggested she didn't want him around. Agreeing to get rid of this cross-stitch brought them closer together and may have saved the marriage. On their anniversary, Amy bought James a replacement cross-stitch of swans.

posted by Obscure Reference 21 June | 20:50

an 8"X6" shed
That must be the world's smallest shed!

posted by dg 21 June | 20:56

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