"“The emerald is a natural emerald, which makes it slightly more valuable than an artificial one.” “How do you know?” I asked. She’d made the judgment a split second after she’d put the ring into the laser scanner. “Natural gems have flaws,” the jeweler said. “Artificial gems are perfect.”"
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Walter Jon Williams, Send Them Flowers (2007) in Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (eds.) The New Space Opera (mass market paperback edition, ), p. 533
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