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Dear French: Go away. We don’t have the jewels.
Bad luck follows this thing like white on rice. I say give it to them.
This isn’t exactly news. It’s always been assumed the Hope was cut from the much larger — and vanished — Blue Tavernier. Gemology texts have reported this pretty much as a fact for years. The only thing new in this report is locating the lead model of the original Blue. It’s tragic the recut was botched so badly, even including a culet facet at the tip of the pavilion which leaks light. But it’s still an impressive hunk of crystallized blue carbon.
Gee, I recall a program on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, or TLC (I can’t remember which) that showed how little stone had to be recut to make the Hope Diamond from the Great Blue.
If we got the stone, where’s my cut?
We must give it back to the French. It has a curse on it you know. Our nation hasn’t been worth a hoot since we got that rock. Let the French Have it or better yet—give it back to India where it once adorned a heathen Idol.
