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Pearls are beautiful, and no woman should be without at least one piece of pearl jewelry in her collection. But, buying pearls can be difficult, because you need to make sure that you are getting the real thing and not some cheap imitation.

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I was in the exact place I needed to be, had finally repaired those broken hearts, and I needed a talisman to remember that.

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It goes with any outfit, won’t talk back to you, and unlike Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,” it’s not inexplicably linked to your heart.

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It’s not like a new hair color; you can’t adopt it in a day. Most well-decorated lobes have been tended to since birth.

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The cool thing about these guys, though, is that they’re simple in just the ways my chandelier earrings of yore weren’t.

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Get ready to do some serious shopping.

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The bracelets you made at day camp are back in.

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I had always thought that Beyoncé had covered pretty much all the bases; that there was nothing she could do at this point that would surprise me. But her new editorial in CR Fashion Book’s fifth issue has proved me very very wrong.

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In “Dream Closets,” I’ll be documenting my favorite closets around New York and the personalities behind each of them.

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Why not take that money and go on a trip with your partner and actually have an experience together?