Shannon MacNamee had a boring but simple life. Like most children, she grew up loving and spending time with her parents. She thought she knew them better than anyone. When her mother passes she finds herself back at her childhood home going through their belongings. Reminiscing over two lives that consumed her for the last thirty years she finds herself in the basement staring at the trunk she was never allowed to open. Inside lies a world she could have never imagined. A world that leads to love affairs, loss, and even heroes. Valuable trinkets that tell of heartache, conquests, and great wealth. Disillusioned by her findings she now begins to wonder just who her parents really were. Just what does it mean to live life? To have lived, loved and lost? With each new trinket Shannon was about to find out. Through this series of short stories author Rod L. Griffin reminds us what it means to triumph over life. We all have trinkets that tell a story, most good, some bad, what do yours tell?