By Melanie Wong
VAIL — It’s hard enough to believe that a clam or oyster could take a tiny piece of sand and create something as strange and beautiful as a pearl. Given that this is in fact the case, it’s not too much of a stretch to buy into the idea that such miracles of nature carry some sort of protective power.Pearl specialist Koji Kawamoto, who hails from Mie Prefecture, the small village in Japan where the process of culturing pearls was first discovered, insists that this is true. “We say that if you are wearing pearls, you are protected,” Kawamoto said. …
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