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Diamonds have for centuries spoken to the heart and to the imagination.
In the symbolism of gemstones they have come to represent eternal love. Since the dawn of time artists have battled to capture the enchanting, sparkling light with delicate strokes of the brush. But diamond cutting is an art in itself. Of course the five separate steps of marking, cleaving, sawing, girdling and faceting hardly sound romantic at all. And yet without them girls would apparently have no best friends at all.