As someone who passed up getting married several times, not specifically because of disagreements about diamonds but with women who would certainly have responded to such a disagreement as a huge red flag if not a deal breaker, stories like this remind me why it was worth wading through 20 years of heartbreak and occasional loneliness until I stumbled into someone who - in addition to checking all the usual boxes and then some - could not care less about "authentic" chunks of rock. at. all.
Ironically her degree and academic research career are both very much concerned with authenticating the provenence of ancient stuff dug out of the ground. Just not lizard-brain shiny rocks.
Ironically her degree and academic research career are both very much concerned with authenticating the provenence of ancient stuff dug out of the ground. Just not lizard-brain shiny rocks.