Diamonds: The Lady and the Gentleman
She is his uncharted sky. She is his sunrise. She is his nearest star. The Lady is for him the one burning island in the sea of earth’s blackened, empty, night. There are many reasons why a Gentleman will buy a diamond for a Lady. True love is, perhaps, the most sacred of them. Perhaps true love is what happens when the Gentleman and Lady are in some faraway land, where gentlemen in white suits drive sports cars with their roofs down along an open seaside road. Sunlight sparkles off of the azure coloured water, like so many diamonds. If you are lucky, you catch a glimpse of the couple as they pass under the bridge where you stand admiring...