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"It's funny how you scrap and save to buy something really expensive and then you scrap and save some more to buy the very best of that thing only to find that it's so expensive that you can't even use it or take it anywhere so you just have to arrange it on your breakfast room table and just look at it."
$30,000.00 worth of beads

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