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![Thrift Wars [Updated 2022] by Eric Michael](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1438250016l/24510868._SX98_.jpg "Thrift Wars [Updated 2022] by Eric Michael")
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She ran her hand through a shell bowl absently, letting the trinkets slide through her fingers. Mostly they weren't cut or polished the way a human jeweler would treat them: they sparkled here and there out of a chunk of brownish rock. A single crystal might shine like the weapon of a god- but be topped by the lumpy bit where it had been prized out of a geode.
Ariel regarded the stones with fascination. Of course they were beautiful. Yet she still found the bits and baubles from the human world,
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― Part of Your World
― Part of Your World
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In a world where news of inhumanity bombards our sensibilities, where grasping for things goes so far beyond our needs, where time is squandered in busyness, it is a pleasure and a privilege to pause for a look at handiwork, to see beauty amidst utility, and to know that craft traditions begun so long ago serve us today.
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