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I hated my birthstone.

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If only I had been born in April!

April babies are drenched in diamonds!

Some are Born to Endless Night.

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In any case, when you take a closer look, this whole birthstone business is kind of mysterious.

Still other scholarship attributes this birthstone business to the arrival of Jewish gem traders in Poland in the 16thcentury.

(See peridot.)

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