One day, maybe 100 or 200 years from now, people will look back and ask, "Did your ancestors really pay thousands of dollars for a piece of carbon? A rock? Just in order to wear a rock on your hand?
Think about all the things you can do with US $3000?
$3000 is $120,000 pesos.
1. You can educate and put several children through school here in the DR for $120,000 pesos.
2. You can buy medicine. A lot. And go up into the mountains, small villages, and border towns, and help a lot of people with simple infections and other ailments.
3. You can visit a brother everyday for 120 days. That's a lot of sex.
4. You can buy a lot of anti-antibiotics for yourself and the girls after your 120 sessions are over.
5. You can buy a lot of fuel, electricity, roof, food, supplies for $120,000 pesos.
6. You can transportation...any small motorcycle or scooter you want.
There is so much positive things you can do in a poor country with US. $3000.
My personal opinion--and i'm usually wrong--is that giving a $3000 fossilized rock to a poorly educated or even highly educated person is not a very good demonstration of love.
Do what i do every week. I find a girl, take her to a diamond store and ask for the biggest diamond they have. I write a check and tell them i'll be back on monday to pick up the diamond after the check clears. When the jeweler gets angry and calls me a few days later and tells me that "my check bounced!" I tell them, "Yeah, i know. But let me tell you about my fantastic, sex-filled weekend!!"
FRank