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I need to address something that's been breaking my heart. There's a store called Patricia's Jewelry that has copied everything I've built. My story? They copied it — almost word for word. An old woman, a little workshop, a final collection. Except "Patricia" isn't real. She's an AI-generated picture. Look at her photos closely. Count her fingers. My pieces? They took my designs, even my product names, and had cheap copies stamped out in a factory overseas — coated brass instead of pure copper — and they're selling them to women who think they're buying mine. Look, I'm not against competition. If a real craftswoman somewhere were making better copper than me, I'd be happy knowing you were wearing hers. At my age, this was never about me — it's about women finally having real copper on their skin, the way it's been worn for thousands of years. But that's not what's happening here. There is no Patricia. There is no workshop. There is no craftswoman. There's a computer-made face, my life's story copied underneath it, and a bag from a factory that will arrive at your door with a bracelet that turns your wrist green by spring. I've been hammering copper for over forty years. Every piece I've ever sold passed through these two hands. I didn't spend my life at this workbench so a fake version of me could trick the very women I make these for. If you've seen ads that look like mine but with a different name on them — now you know why. There is only one of me. The original is Vera's Copper. Don't settle for a counterfeit of an old woman's life. — Vera P.S. The moment they see this post, they'll probably copy it too. They've copied everything else. So please — share this with someone who wears copper, so one less woman gets fooled.