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What if \u2014 the engagement ring, as we know it today, disappeared? Thanks to clever marketing by De Beers, men have been told that they ought to be spending 3 months\u2019 pay on a ring; according to theknot.com, as reported in USA Today, the actual average spend in 2013 was about $6,000, and the average […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":3036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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