About 20 years ago I broke up with my girlfriend, but it wasn't tense... you take this, I'll take that sort of thing. She had this acoustic that I played all the time, a gift from her mom, but she never bothered to learn to play. I didn't ask for it, in fact I told her she should keep it because her mom had passed away before we met. But she said that her mom would have wanted the guitar to be played, and that I should take it, so I did. It never occurred to me that it was all that special of guitar until about a year ago I tried a bunch of acoustics in the store and just felt that it was odd how most didn't feel or sound as nice as the one I had at home. So I looked it up... its a Yairi 351 handmade in Japan, apparently worth about $1500-2000. Guess her Mom went all out. Its a very nice guitar and gets used a lot. At least its not collecting dust in her closet!