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In 1969, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) by Dr. David Reuben, was one of those books that my parents hide under the mattress, but that I could secretly linger at in the South Orange Public Library, as long as the librarian didn’t shoo me away. Regardless, it was one of the most successful books on the NY Times Best Sellers List, and sold over 150 million copies It was even made into a film by Woody Allen. (Although I don’t recollect a chapter on marrying… Continue

You would think that being nominated for an Academy Award, rebuilding the ramshackled home one of the kids from Slumdog Millionaire’s, adopting children in need, helping rebuild a post Katrina New Orleans, and oh yes, did I mention being married to one of the most beautiful women in the world would be enough for one man. That is unless your name is Brad Pitt, who can now add directing traffic at busy intersections in the Peoples Republic of The Soviet Union to his resume.



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No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?" Robert Cecil Day Lewis



Cultured pearls were not accepted immediately; it took several decades before consumers and the industry began accept this new kind of pearl as legitimate. A cultured pearl is a pearl created by a pearl farmer under controlled conditions, and therefore “milled”, but that does not equate to manufactured. Cultured pearls… Continue