It’s crazy,” Randall stated, “But so many of the lower end silver coins were melted down in the big silver bubble in 1980, that they turned the ...market on its ear. Same thing with gold. In 1935 when it became illegal to own gold for most people, the government melted down huge amounts of coins, so the ones left are rare outside the actual number originally minted.”“Crazy.”“Yeah,” Randall said. “Skews the rarity factor something fierce because nobody knows how many got melted down. You folks’ll. "I'm not expecting you to fall into my arms,"He had told her, "I'm not the man you used to know any more, that accident really smashed me up. My face is a mess and no amount of plastic surgery can ever fix it. You won't want me when you see what I look like now." But I will,"She had promised him, "I'll look at you and see the man I fell in love with."As he spoke she could hear the sadness in his voice. She wanted to cry and sob and say, it made no difference, she loved him anyway, but the words. ”Betsy sighed. “When we walked back to the recycling plant, he didn’t put his arm around me. He didn’t hold my hand.”“Um,” Gary said sounding a lot like a doctor who has discovered something interesting about a patient.“Um, what?” Betsy asked.“Why do you think he went there with you?”“To protect me, I guess.”“So you proceeded to show him that you didn’t need his protection,” Gary said.“Right.”“Why?”“I don’t want people thinking they have to protect me.”“I guess that makes sense. I mean that’s. Their aloofness from each other though did not mean that they hated each other. To the contrary they in fact loved each other and cherished the attributes they saw in each other. Brenda certainly did not despise her sister because she was a slut and a whore. If the truth were known she envied Linda and her whorish ways. She believed that if it had not been for her childhood accident she definitely would have followed her sister’s example in promiscuity. Likewise Linda did not shun Brenda.