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Miri still remembers the time her friend Aliza asked her to join her on a trip to Tiffany, the iconic jewelry store on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Aliza had spent thousands of dollars on a Tiffany bracelet, and the clasp kept getting jammed. “Come with me to Manhattan,” she begged Miri. “We’ll bring in my bracelet to be fixed, and we’ll make it a full-day trip.”
“There’s so much I could have remembered about that day — Manhattan is such a colorful place,” Miri says. “But the only thing I remember is the amazingly deferential and respectful treatment Aliza got from the staff at Tiffany. They literally waited on her hand and foot.”
Why did that encounter make such a deep impression on Miri? “Simple. Because I had also made a thousand-dollar purchase a few months earlier, and just like Aliza’s bracelet, it kept malfunctioning. But in my case, when I went back to the seller, she flat out refused to take responsibility. Instead, she blamed me.”
Miri’s purchase wasn’t a piece of jewelry. It was a new wig.
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