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Gotta Have Heart
Looking
across our living rooms – Patti, Jessie, Karyn and I joke that it’s
deja-view all over again. Each year, it’s January before we emerge
from under mountains of holiday wrapping paper. (We’ve often wondered
what future archeologists will think – digging up our ribbons
and bows!)
This year, though, we’ve pondered a more serious question: Why is it
that we give gifts to spread heartwarming feelings, yet take for
granted the organ responsible for those loving emotions, and our very
lives? By that I mean, of course, our hearts.
Until a
few weeks back, heart health was far from our minds. But then Patti |
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went
to visit her sister in Westlake Village, California, and stopped at
the Brighton Collectibles store to pick up a Victorian Photo Coin Purse for her
spare change –and everything changed. She overheard Renee Hazan, who
works in the store, talking to another customer.
That customer had lost a daughter to Heart Disease– and Renee told
her she wasn’t alone – that Brighton’s founders, Jerry and Terri
Kohl, (Renee’s friends since childhood) had a daughter who died from
heart disease…and the silver heart hanging from Brighton handbags was created to honor this child who
continues to survive in their hearts. |
The Kohl’s are passionate about
helping families who are, or may be, affected by Heart Disease (which
kills more women each year than all forms of cancer combined…so that
could be any of us.) To support The American Heart Association’s Go
Red For Women Campaign, Brighton has designed a special bracelet, and
will donate $10 from each bracelet - $5 from the home office and $5
from Brighton Collectibles Stores. Brighton will donate more than
$250,000 to benefit education, research and treatment of Heart
Disease.
On
January 15, the bracelets go on sale….and Patti, Karyn, Jessie and I
will be at our local participating Brighton retailers’ door….We invite you to be
there, too… helping to keep the precious hearts we all hold dear…safe
and well. |
"A mother holds her
children's hands for awhile. . .
their hearts, forever"
(unknown) |
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