“It’s frigging miraculous,” she said to no one in particular as she spied and then finally recovered the tiny silver backing of her left faux diamond stud earring from under the refrigerator using a straightened wire hanger with a piece of well-chewed gum stuck to its end.
She stuck it back on its post before dusting off the lint that had stuck to the knees of her velour pantsuit during her search.
And with that, she returned to Judge Judy reruns with a renewed sense of hope for the world.