The XX Factor
~ The chromosome that changes everything ~

Late one night as I was driving down the city, I looked up at a huge billboard of Sushmita Sen, an advertisement for Kiah jewellery, which said,

You are the occasion
You are the celebration
I told him,
I really love that ad!
He smiled and said,
You would. It celebrates you, after all.
~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~
Earlier in the month, I wrote about my [...]

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I went diamond-shopping this weekend. Last year I received a corporate pat-on-the-back with a financial award. Someone suggested that I spend it on jewelery instead of frittering it away on clothes, books and shoes. It took me months but I finally agreed.
It’s not even the first major purchase I made, even for jewellery. I saved [...]