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If it wasn't for advertising, I never would have known that "previously loved" diamonds are inferior to blood diamonds. Or that man-made chemically pure diamonds are frauds and only mined diamonds have any value.


Don't forget that buying a diamond engagement ring has been a tradition dating back to before "your favorite historical figure from over two hundred years ago's" time.

Or is it five hundred years? I forget.


This is a good article on that phenomenon:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...




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