Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature.[…] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call “pinking.”

In temperament he was Dutch to the backbone — at least as we imagine Dutch.

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I can't talk to him about the accident; he just shuts down anytime I try.