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Absolutely, and we do often feel very lonely when we're grappling with big decisions.

And so, to your point, talking to people who have faced these types of decisions and

move through them, and anything that you can do to feel less alone and to feel more in control,

putting yourself in the driver's seat of your own destiny is so important.

So, Pam, you know the idea that wedding season is going on right now.

Spring is oftentimes wedding seasons. Sure. Yeah.

And engagement rings are a part of the picture from at some point.

Typically, yes.

But do you know, what's the typical, what's the phrase they use on how much did you spend on

a wedding, on an engagement ring? Love, you know, I hear it two to three months.

Right. And do you know where that thing came from?

The idea that should be a way to two to three months salary is what you should spend on an

engagement ring. Well, prior to the World War II, only about, well, let's see, there was less

than 80% of the rings out there for engagement rings had diamonds involved with it.

Okay.

And then the, with the depression that was going on, it was killing debiers, which owned roughly

60% of the diamond industry at that point.

So, as now than the 20th century, 80% of the engagement rings do have diamonds involved.

Okay. So in that gap, and so they launched some campaigns and several of them just,

they should depict it a woman with a face of, you know, joy and a scarf and a hand with a ring

on it. And one of the phrases was, how can you make two months salary last forever?

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