"The British financiers who had organized the South African mines quickly realized that their investment was endangered; diamonds had little intrinsic value—and their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity. The major investors in the diamond mines realized that they had no alternative but to merge their interests into a single entity that would be powerful enough to control production and perpetuate the illusion of scarcity of diamonds..." Frankly, as an educated woman...I wonder: HOW is it that 40+ years after this exposé was published in one of the most credible journalism outlets in the world, millions of consumers still pay more than a few hundred bucks for a diamond (ANY diamond)? SMH. - Mrs. Cubic Zirconia  

Pictures of Mrs. Cubic Zirconia without clothes may or may not have existed at one time in the past over a decade ago and earlier in our relationship as man and woman. As her husband, Mr. Cubic Zirconia cannot confirm or deny.  But if any alleged naked pictures did exist-- perhaps in a special, carefully-controlled and password-protected, digital format protected by a lock-and-key smartphone application -- such naughty nostalgia nudes, if these photos ever indeed existed, would have been lost in the great fully-clothed New Year’s Eve Merida Mexico midnight swimming pool dive of 2015.  But today’s email isn’t about one man’s hypothetical dumb, drunken decision not to put a waterproof case on his smartphone.  It’s about one man’s somewhat selfish belief that a private “boudoir” portrait painting or photography session might just be a very special once-or-twice-in-a-lifetime gift one spouse can give to another.  And that man shamelessly trying to convince tens of thousands of women, if need be, to do the same thing...to convince just one woman to do that one thing. Let's get naked

How long is too long to wait for him to propose marriage? 12 months? 3 years? Ten? It doesn’t have to happen right away, but...surely there's a time period that is simply too long to wait for a proposal when the woman in question has expressed that she wants to be married to her guy, right? Asking women to sound off about waiting for engagement.

How many chainsaws do you need? My father in law has 4 chainsaws (that I know of).  The idea that a guy would want to try and safely wield a loud and dangerous piece of power equipment with each of his two hands AND each of his two feet while simultaneously cutting down four trees at the same time…seemed crazy to me. But truth is…

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