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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 to Word of the Week“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies… Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him.” So bemoans Della Dillingham Young, young heroine of O. Henry’s ironic tale The Gift of the Magi.
Do you know the story? Della sells her long, luxurious hair to buy a watch chain for “Her Jim,” who has sold his watch to buy combs for her hair.
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