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Pearls are now preferred to diamonds For a long time, then, pearls were thought of as a badge of respectability, almost of authority rather than the exotic and fascinating jewels that they are. Formed when a scrap of grit, a parasite, a bit of broken shell, enters an unwary oysters shell, the final, exquisite, gleaming pearl is the result of layer upon layer of a substance known as nacre,