TIA HANNI’s BRACELET This is the story as I remember it. No doubt if any of my older cousins read this, they will correct me (they usually do !). But the story stands on its own merits and so I will share it here with you. Apparently, there was this precocious young lady, sometime in the late 1800s, whose name was Hannah Benoliel. It seems that her sisters and her girl-cousins too, had all managed to get married, but Hannah was not. She was not ugly, on the contrary, but somehow or other suitors did not survive with her for long. In those days this was considered something of a tragedy that a young girl from a good family could not get married. "Hannah!" " Si, Papa ..." "Why do you turn down all suitors? Are you waiting for Prince Charming on his white horse?" " No Papa ...." " Entonces ????" "Papa, they are rather shallow. They talk sweet nothings and more nothings than sweet!" "Pero tu no eres Einst...