Our Engagement Ring
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The twisting and turning story of our engagement ring and some reflections on gemstones.
R. Paul Stevens
There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.
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Our Engagement Ring - R. Paul Stevens
Our Engagement Ring
All Rights Reserved © 2012 Paul Stevens
An Article in the Sundowner Diaries Series
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Our Engagement Ring - Ranking of Precious and Semi Precious Stones
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Our Engagement Ring
You know what? It’s been 25 years since I’ve seen our engagement ring. Well, that’s not very observant, is it, and would be the logical question. But you see it’s been locked away in our safe for all those years because the ring became too small for my wife’s finger. Don’t ask me why, but I insisted she take it out the safe the other day because I wanted to have a look at it for sentimental reasons. Yes, that’s right, even a man can be sentimental at times. For the life of me I couldn’t remember what it looked like even though I gave it to her when we became engaged. Well I did give it to her, but to be honest my mother gave it to me to give to her, and that solved an awful lot of problems. But more about that later. Now my wife hates to take things out of the safe because its old fashioned which means you have to rotate a dial x times in a clockwise direction and y times in an anticlockwise direction to a specific number. I’ve tried to open it but I can’t; only she can. And then she has hidden the instructions to open it somewhere in the house and I don’t know where those are either. Anyhow