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Old 05-15-2008, 06:21 PM  
pr0
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Originally Posted by dav3 View Post
I think I watched a doc. about this a year or so ago. If I recall correctly, wasn't the whole thing about a diamond on an engagement ring created just a few decades ago, buy the people who control the diamond trade?

Luckily, my gf isn't caught up in trivial things like this.
Yup...the most fucked up part. (or one of the most fucked up parts)

During WW2, DeBeers wouldn't even come off of some industrial stones for the U.S. war machine citing "we might sell them off after the war & drop the market price".
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