Okay, so maybe the spoon was a little tarnished. You could have polished it, (today, it's called patina anyway). Paradise is whatever you want it to be. Make the most of what you have and that's sometimes paradise. Signed, your dickhead internet friend. 
You live in Seattle dont you and more than likely come from a family that was well off...........well I was raised in a ghetto with a father who would be drunk 24/7 beat up my mother daily knocking out a few of her teeth and breaking her nose..........I learned at any early age how to duck from a thrown empty quart beer bottle.
We lived here because my uncle owned the house and didn`t charge my derelict father a lot of money for rent....not because we wanted to.
My silver spoon wasn`t tarnished and had no patina it was a plastic fucking spork !!
Nuff said !!
