This is THE one - my pear!

After much searching, I finally took the plunge yesterday and purchased this lovely pear from James Allen. Many thanks to Josh for being so patient and pulling all those stones for me!

My pear is currently making its way to 23rd street jeweler where it will be set it in a *very* thin "wire bezel" like this (without all the other stones): http://www.23rdstreetjewelers.com/aCatItem.aspx

I can't wait to get it in my hot little hands!

0.58
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SI2
Depth: 68.9%
Table: 58.0%
Polish: Good
Symmetry: Good
Girdle: Thick to very thick
Flourescence: Medium Blue

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"It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds."

-Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State



John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things....

The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!"

~~~Thanks to PS, my wants far exceed my budget!~~~

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." -Gore Vidal