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I love when grandma comes to.

Some of you've seen three generations.

I love that.

Grandma's paying.

Mom's reinserting or getting pierced and daughters getting new holes.

That's great.

You know, we skip over infection now because we're also wildly clean, possibly too clean sometimes.

But actually, you know, if you're in battle, you don't want it to get in the way and you don't want

to be causing any more problems than it needs to be. So gold would be the obvious answer.

But they probably didn't know that, did they?

No, but they probably found it out for us.

Welcome to If Jewels Could Talk.

I'm Carol Walton, the voice of jewellery, an author, broadcaster,

and the woman who initiated the role of Jewelry Editor at magazines like Tattler and British Vogue.

This is a podcast for everyone.

For people who do like jewellery, for people who don't realise they like jewellery,

and anyone intrigued by fascinating facts,

new ideas and forgotten histories.

So please join me as I tell sparkly tales,

meeting sorts of people,

delving into four centuries of jewellery culture and investigate what's

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