I like this story. I have a bead like that... found in the bottom of a box of broken jewelry, 5 cents a piece, at an old Goodwill store. It is a gold oval wedding cake bead, such an exciting find that I went back to the box of broken jewelry repeatedly looking for more, and of course, buying nice beads, any beads, whenever I found them. This was my 'first' bead, if you will.