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NYC woman digs 3 weeks to find her own engagement ring diamond

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What would you do to find your perfect engagement ring? For Micherre Fox, a 31-year-old strategy consultant from New York City, it meant camping out for three weeks at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Ark., with a shovel and a mission: to dig up her own diamond. Fox said she began dreaming of finding her own ethically sourced gem about two years ago. "We're not getting engaged until I do that," she recalled telling her boyfriend Trevor Ballou. "They come from the ground. What is stopping us from just getting one ourselves?" After researching, she discovered that the only active public diamond mine ... (full story)

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