Nicole's+Story

=__**The Marble Vase**__= One afternoon, after school Jessica Saunders was walking around the local museum, listening to a docent talk about the marble vase in front of her; which was in a glass case. The docent was saying that the vase was made in the BC period, when Alexander the Great was alive.

A man named Antony had made the basin for his fiance, Nicoletta for her to use as she wishes. So you could say it was a love token. But before Antony could get the vase to his beloved fiance there was a violent thunderstorm came upon the little island of Corsica, the happy couple to-be lived. The Corsica Delta had swept through the lower section of the city;so poor Antony had to leave his marble vase to drift away with the strong current of the Corsica. After the storm had the subsided and the water had cleared back into the delta, everyone was able to go back to their homes; Antony went rushing into the little pottery shop where he worked, to make sure the vase had survived. As Antony searched around the little shop he came to the sad conclusion that his gift for Nicoletta was gone.

Quite a few days later a fishing vessel was out patrolling the Corsica Strait, the radar suddenly sprang into the high-pitched singing that it does when it finds schools of fish.The captain shouted out to the crew to get the net out into the. While the men pulled the net up out of the water the men found the beautiful vase sitting the net of doomed fish, they took it up to the captain to show him what they came across. The captain took the vase and saved it until they got back to port in Sicily, there the captain would take the vase to the pottery shop to find out if it had washed out into the strait in the same storm that hit Corsica some days ago. When the captain did so, the pottery maker said none of her stuff had gone missing. She also said that it could have been from the Corsicans across the strait. That night after the captain went to bed for the night, thieves came through his home and stole everything they could carry, they even took the vase.

The thieves then sold it: to a merchant, who sold it to a man, who passed it on to generation after generation; then it kept going down the line until the great to tenth power granddaughter of the man who kept it in the family for so many years had taken it to a appraisal where the appraiser priced as much as $1,000. So the great granddaughter took it to the American International Museum where it remains today.

EPILOGUE: Eventually Antony and Nicoletta's had made the same type of vase. Even though the one vase that Antony made was just an extra he still felt very sad. Nicoletta and her dad, Zeke finally found each other before the wedding so everything was fine; Zeke lived the rest of his life in Corsica but after he died Nicoletta and her family moved to the same little house Nicoletta grew up in. Zeke was looking down from the heavens smiling as he was watching over his family.