MARKHAM, ON — Local woman Sara Summers recently added the finishing touch to a stunning personal collection of purses: a purple pastel wristlet retrieved from a booby-trapped temple in Peru.
The piece will be added to a pantheon of purses that Summers has amassed over the course of 25 years and stores in a spacious 18th-century cathedral.
Also in the collection are a black pleather weekender bag retrieved from a cult who intended to use it in an underground human sacrifice ritual; a metallic clutch recovered from a scourge of giant ants; and a small tri-zippered leopard print cross-body, hard-won from a seaplane full of agile Nazis.
With this addition, Summers is the first person in history to own a bag for literally every occasion.
Summers reported to an audience of guests that, after months of searching with a team of archaeologists and personal stylists, the purse was extracted from a stone chamber in the Peruvian temple, just east of a room containing a glowing metal chalice of some kind.
The wristlet has three card slots, a front flap snap pocket, and is cursed by the spirit of an ancient Incan God.
While the press took photos, Summer climbed a ladder up to a shelf twenty feet in the air and affixed a small plaque under the purse indicating its significance in the collection: “a purse for summer that’s small enough to bring clubbing, but big enough to fit my iPhone 6.,” The audience of journalists, fellow collectors and esteemed guests roared with applause.
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