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I am a married mother of one with a large-no, make that huge-yellow Lab named Biscuit. I have had dogs all my life, but never one as demented as Biscuit. He is, the private trainer I hired at great expense assured me, a rocket scientist compared to other dogs, but he has his own little ways. These include assaulting anyone who dares to come to our front door. Did I mention that after adopting this "free" dog I had to hire a trainer at enormous expense? So much for the important stuff 
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I grew up in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Thst's the part of Connecticut (which is in New England) close enough for commutation to New York City. My husband grew up in northern Italy and came here on a Fulbright scholarship. My daughter was born in Colombia (where I bought some emeralds).
I started out planning to become an historian, but-while teaching school-got derailed by the kids. I found I was always passing out Kleenex in my office to girls crying about fights with their boyfriends and fights with their mothers. So I went back to school to become a social worker.
I speak French as well as English and hobble along in Spanish and Italian. I have also studied Greman (which I forgot) and recently dabbled in Portuguese. One reason I fell for my husband was his enormous competence with language. He was a Greek and Latin scholar and has, since then, become fluent in all the languages (save Portuguese) mentioned above as well as competent in Hebrew.
My engagement ring was a delicate 18 karat gold band with an oval on top that held two 1-point diamonds. I was a student when we got engaged and he was just out of school. We had no money and no interest in a "real diamond" engagement ring. (At that point I only liked colored stones, anyway!)
After a few years of marriage my husband also bought me an anniversary band with some very small diamonds (6 points? 7 points?) set in platinum. I did not get interested in diamonds until about 5 years ago.
Since the late 1990s I have acquired enough diamonds for a solitaire, a pendant, and two pairs of earrings. I also have one round brilliant that is currently unset and a red spinel from Pala Gems and two pear shaped diamonds that await setting. Most of my jewelry is in a safe deposit box since I wear it infrequently. I dress simply and so I often wear CZ earrings, a cheap watch, and a plain gold wedding band as my only jewelry.
I was one of the earliest posters on Diamond Talk, starting there in March 2000. I was banned quite early on once the bannings started and I know why I was. Although I posted there as, "A Girl's Best Friend", they changed my name to "MasASHell" and banned the letters "AGBF" for a while. (If one wrote in, "AGBF" one SAW, "****".) I was quite proud of being singled out for this because I love the movie "Z" about the Greek junta that banned things like music by Theodorakis and the letter "Z".
Yes, I am left wing. I oppose Greek juntas and Chilean juntas under Pinochet. I am married to a Republican banker whose vote I have to cancel out on each Election Day.
.I grew up in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Thst's the part of Connecticut (which is in New England) close enough for commutation to New York City. My husband grew up in northern Italy and came here on a Fulbright scholarship. My daughter was born in Colombia (where I bought some emeralds).
I started out planning to become an historian, but-while teaching school-got derailed by the kids. I found I was always passing out Kleenex in my office to girls crying about fights with their boyfriends and fights with their mothers. So I went back to school to become a social worker.
I speak French as well as English and hobble along in Spanish and Italian. I have also studied Greman (which I forgot) and recently dabbled in Portuguese. One reason I fell for my husband was his enormous competence with language. He was a Greek and Latin scholar and has, since then, become fluent in all the languages (save Portuguese) mentioned above as well as competent in Hebrew.
My engagement ring was a delicate 18 karat gold band with an oval on top that held two 1-point diamonds. I was a student when we got engaged and he was just out of school. We had no money and no interest in a "real diamond" engagement ring. (At that point I only liked colored stones, anyway!)
After a few years of marriage my husband also bought me an anniversary band with some very small diamonds (6 points? 7 points?) set in platinum. I did not get interested in diamonds until about 5 years ago.
Since the late 1990s I have acquired enough diamonds for a solitaire, a pendant, and two pairs of earrings. I also have one round brilliant that is currently unset and a red spinel from Pala Gems and two pear shaped diamonds that await setting. Most of my jewelry is in a safe deposit box since I wear it infrequently. I dress simply and so I often wear CZ earrings, a cheap watch, and a plain gold wedding band as my only jewelry.
I was one of the earliest posters on Diamond Talk, starting there in March 2000. I was banned quite early on once the bannings started and I know why I was. Although I posted there as, "A Girl's Best Friend", they changed my name to "MasASHell" and banned the letters "AGBF" for a while. (If one wrote in, "AGBF" one SAW, "****".) I was quite proud of being singled out for this because I love the movie "Z" about the Greek junta that banned things like music by Theodorakis and the letter "Z".
Yes, I am left wing. I oppose Greek juntas and Chilean juntas under Pinochet. I am married to a Republican banker whose vote I have to cancel out on each Election Day.
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