Who holds pears like that?!

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For me they could also be Guava or Quince, too, if ever they are fruit.
There is a story behind Quince:
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As a sacred emblem of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., a quince figured in a lost poem of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that survives in a prose epitome: seeing his beloved in the courtyard of the temple of Aphrodite, Acontius plucks a quince from the "orchard of Aphrodite", inscribes its skin and furtively rolls it at the feet of her illiterate nurse, whose curiosity aroused, hands it to the girl to read aloud, and the girl finds herself saying "I swear by Aphrodite that I will marry Acontius"
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