DEAR ABBY: The letter from the lady who asked her ex-daughter-in-law to hand down the family sterling to her granddaughter set me to giggling in memory of my own very wonderful mother-in-law. She had promised to crochet a bedspread for her son and me.
She was married to a man with "itchy feet," so they moved about three times a year, which left her with very little time to work on the spread, but she finally finished it!
Twenty-one years later, her son and I divorced. I stewed a long time about that bedspread. Obviously, I was no longer in the running -- so I wrote her a letter and suggested that she give it to one of my kids or one of her other grandchildren.
I was not prepared for her response: "Not to worry. I unraveled it." -- MS. MONTY MILLER, BUCKLEY, WASH.