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Old 09-15-2006, 03:02 AM
Slraep
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Originally Posted by perlas

If I'm not mistaken, I read in the GIA Pearls Book that the myth is you have to feed the pearls to the chicken and kill it after a few hours to take the pearls out...
Hi Perlas,

That's it. That's what they mean. It reminds me of a certain mythical Chinese tea where they feed a horse fresh tea leaves and kill the horse after they are slightly fermented in order to extract it from the stomach.

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