My mom found it by accident in my dad’s drawer. She was too embarrassed to ask him what it was…

she found a strange metal object wrapped in an old cloth.

At first, she just stared at it.

It was heavy, smooth, and curved like a small metal scoop. It had thin wire handles and round loops at the end. The whole thing looked too old to be a normal tool, but too carefully kept to be junk.

My mother turned it over in her hands and frowned.

“What in the continue reading …