In 2015, Southern Living Magazine put out a public call for women to submit “pearls of wisdom” they learned from their mothers or grandmothers. Cissie Graham Lynch, granddaughter of Ruth Bell Graham and daughter of Franklin Graham, submitted the following:

“My grandmother would say: ‘Never does a day go by that a lady doesn’t wear pearls.’ Even when wearing her house coat and bedroom shoes, she always had a strand of pearls around her neck.”

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