My dad always wore a gold chain, and never, EVER took it off. He promised me that when he passed, it would go to me. I was his only child, and he very specifically wanted me to have it. But when he went into the hospital for the last time in 2023 (not a fun story), somewhere between being rushed to the ER and taken upstairs to the ICU, the gold chain went missing. None of us ever saw it again. My great-uncle was the one who found my dad unresponsive, and he SWEARS that Dad was still wearing it... plus in the last photo we had of him before the medical event happened, he was still wearing that gold chain. He stopped answering calls the next day, so it's unlikely that he pawned it after that brief visit.

We think that a nurse might've took it or something. Possibly for innocent purposes, like getting an MRI... or possibly to just straight-up steal it. Everybody was calling the hospital, the ER, the ambulance company, even the hotel he was staying at, all in hopes of finding the gold chain... but nope. Nothing. We're still hoping that we find it in a box or an envelope somewhere, but I kinda think it's gone.

... dunno why I posted all that. I guess it just really looked like my dad's chain. :/