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The Gift of the Magi (opening)

Specificity Over Vagueness

The Gift of the Magi (opening)

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimon...

— O. Henry

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