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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"Get your homework in. No excuses."

A pearl starts as a bit of debris that gets lodged in the oyster's flesh. Unable to expel it, the oyster deposits layer after layer of the same iridescent material as the "mother of pearl" that lines its shell.

Over time, these layers form a deep, lustrous thing of beauty.

A pearl is therefore, a strata-gem.

63 posted on 12/19/2012 3:53:55 PM PST by NicknamedBob ("P" for present, "C" for coal, right, Bernard?)
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To: NicknamedBob

A+++
A pun worth waiting for.


64 posted on 12/19/2012 7:59:55 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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