A WOMAN from Arizona, the U.S., is holding on to an unusual family heirloom — an 85-year-old cookie given as a Valentine to her mother.

    Scottsdale resident Penny Rickhoff said her family has been holding on to the heart-shaped cookie since the 1930s, when it was given to her mother by her first love.

    “People back then, shoot, didn’t have a lot of money,” Rickhoff told KPHO/KTVK. “So you bake a cookie, what else can you do?”

    She said the cookie, which bears the name of her mother’s boyfriend, Bus, stopped being appetizing long ago.

    “It’s hard as a rock,” Rickhoff said.

    “She wanted to keep it as a memento,” Rickhoff said of her mother.

    She said she plans to hold on to the cookie for as long as it holds together. “It’s a lucky cookie, as I say,” Rickhoff said.

    She also kept the original Valentine card, again, from the 1930s.(SD-Agencies)