New American Citizen Necklace

She studied the civics questions for months, sat through the interview, and waited on paperwork that never seemed to move. Then one morning she raised her right hand in a room full of strangers and walked out a citizen. Give her this afterward, over lunch or back at the house, while the day is still settling on her.

Message on the Card:
Congratulation
becoming a United States Citizen
You had a goal and gave it your soul. After all the hard work, today you can be proud of yourself. Ahead of you are so many paths & possibilities, filled with new adventures I know you will conquer. May the pride and hope that you feel today stay in your heart forever.

Two crossed American flags are printed behind the pendant on that card, faded to a soft red and blue so the message stays the loudest thing on it. The Love Knot necklace lies across them, boxed and ready to hand over. The words name the part of a naturalization ceremony nobody photographs: the years of waiting, the nerves on the morning of, the relief when the oath is finally said out loud.

It suits the ceremony day and the dinner afterward, and it reads right coming from a husband, a grown daughter, a coworker, or the friend who quizzed her on the branches of government over coffee. By the time she opens it she will have been told congratulations a dozen times. Almost none of that was written down, and none of it stayed.

Product specifications:

• 14k white gold over stainless steel or 18k yellow gold over stainless steel
• 6mm round cut cubic zirconia stone
• Pendant dimensions: 0.6" (15.7mm) height / 0.23" (6mm) width
• Adjustable chain length: 18" - 22" (45.72cm - 55.88cm)
• Lobster clasp attachment

She earned that word the slow way, one appointment at a time. This is what she has from the day it finally became true.