De Beers would tell you to keep the cookie forever as both (a) an investment and (b) a sign of love, fidelity, and apparently, Victorian hopes and dreams.
Never forgetting that you must upgrade to a larger and shinier cookie every few years or all of the above is meaningless.
You'll clearly need an even better cookie before class.
DeBeers will also tell you you'll need a cookie for your other hand.
And then the shadow people will come and dance joyously around you.
You'll clearly need an even better cookie before class.
Which is determined by the four Cs; crispiness, chocolate content, chewiness, and circularity.
Stupid DeBeers! I want my cookie now! I am terrible with dessert-related waiting games of cunning and patience.
I agree with Jesse that I ought to get a second cookie for later.
Value was so subjective that stones were sorted depending on where they were going, like, the US market values these characteristics so we'll send them these kinds of diamonds, Japan values this, so we'll send them these, etc.
As I recall, pearls are sorted in a similar fashion.
I like diamonds. Wouldn't buy them new, though.
Because of FEMINISM!
Nora, obviously you're an independent modern woman who NEEDS a second cookie. I mean, really. If you're going to stand up for anything in this world, it's a right-hand cookie.
It's too hard to COMM an entire 20 post discussion, but I so want to COMM this one.