When Rubinstein got the pendant home in February, he dropped it into a jewelry cleaning solution, expecting it to disintegrate.

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Growing up in Hillsborough, California, an affluent suburb 20 minutes south of San Francisco, he spent weekends schlepping inventory among his parents' chain of local women's clothing stores--for no pay (he earned money cleaning cases for a jewelry store).

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Besides, she deducted lounge wear, a robe, sportswear, lingerie, an Ohio State jersey, jewelry, running shoes, dry cleaning, business gifts, cable TV, contact lenses, cosmetics, gym memberships, haircuts, Internet access, self-defense classes, and her subscriptions to Cosmo, Glamour, Newsweek, and Nickelodeon.

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Besides, she deducted lounge wear, a robe, sportswear, lingerie, thong underwear , an Ohio State jersey, jewelry, running shoes, dry cleaning, business gifts, cable TV, contact lenses, cosmetics, gym memberships, haircuts, Internet access, self-defense classes, and her subscriptions to Cosmo, Glamour, Newsweek, and Nickelodeon .

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