Article: Stolen moments: the intruder took her pearls, her rings, her earrings, and her past. What he couldn't swipe was her realization that all that glitters is not gold. Barbara O'Dair explores what was lost and what was found.(family)

I RECEIVED THE CALL ON MY CELL PHONE DURING my lunch hour as I was browsing through a bookstore. "I'm at your house with the police," my babysitter said shakily. "When I got here with the girls, the front door was open and your dresser drawers were, too." She added that the girls were all right. I drove home and, with extreme agitation, mounted the stairs to examine the damage. He knew what he was doing, this burglar. He--and I presume a he due to a rash of "jobs" in my neighborhood committed by a male--had shot straight to my bedroom and upended my cloth-covered East Indian jewelry box onto my bed. He then systematically pawed through my drawers, first running his ...

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