During their tempestuous nine-year courtship, my mother gave my father back his engagement ring which, with typical Yorkshire pragmatism, he sold and used the cash to buy a suit. They were reconciled but he never replaced the ring, so my mother didn’t get her diamond, although this week she did have her diamond wedding.
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