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To: Eleutheria5

I was going to look it up. It was O. Henry


18 posted on 01/20/2021 1:19:38 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

I read it in grade school, and mistakenly believed it was Mark Twain’s story. But he was really part of a whole literary movement, and Brett Hart and O. Henry were part of it, too, so he influenced them and they influenced him. So it’s easy to confuse them.


27 posted on 01/21/2021 12:09:29 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believed." Will Robinson)
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