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As our interview was end-
ing, I asked Shirley and Dale
how they became interested
in sapphires. Shirley told
me that when she was eight
years old, she used to go
around town with a leather
bag filled with jewelry repair
tools and ask the locals if
they needed anything fixed
or had anything they wanted
to get rid of. She would take the discarded pieces and make her own. "You
don't pay any attention to it, and you go on with your life and find yourself
back here again by choice." Dale said he was a rock collector since he was
five, and he used to take the long way home from school to look in the win-
dows of the jewelers in Missoula.
Shirley proudly said, "We tell people we speak sapphire."
"WE TELL
PEOPLE
WE SPEAK
SAPPHIRE."
