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Well, well...
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Who's that hiding there?
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Don't worry, I'm not
calling the gendarmes.
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That's interesting.
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Of all the treasures
in this entire room,
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can you guess which is most precious?
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No?
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Actually, it's a very tiny object.
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Fits right in the palm of your hand.
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It would seem someone
has discovered my secret.
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What secret, Grandpa?
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Oh, my dear.
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It's a very old story
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going way, way back in time...
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to when I was a boy in
Montreal, where I was born.
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By day, I prowled the docks,
waiting for a box to drop.
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Then we'd steal what we could
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till the boom of the foreman's rifle
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would scatter us like flies.
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In the summer,
I slept in the streets.
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And when it got cold,
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I'd find an abandoned apartment
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next to where
someone already lived.
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That way, if you slept on
the other side of their kitchen,
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you might feel the
heat from their stove.
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In the apartment across
from me lived a family.
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The woman was always in a rage.
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Her husband was a sickly fellow
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with a daughter from his first wife
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who died in childbirth.
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You spied on them?
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Well, we didn't have
television back then.
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Should I stop?
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No, no.
What happened next?
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I'm afraid it's not a happy story.
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Every day, she'd yell:
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"You and your father
are good for nothing.
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I should throw you into the streets."
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Her father did what
he could to comfort her.
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"We must endure," he'd say.
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"Our reward is in the next life."
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That night, the night
everything changed...
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I witnessed something
extraordinary, magical.
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I watched over her the entire night.
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I wanted to take her away
from that dreadful place.
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Then, before anyone was awake,
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she cleaned the floor as
though nothing had happened.
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It was like she was ashamed.
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Maybe.
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Maybe I could reach them.
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They glowed, perfect and round.
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They tasted...
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like salt...
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like tears.
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So you stole the girl's pearls?
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Don't judge, my love.
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Remember, I was just a child.
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What did you do with them?
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What I tried to do
with anything I found.
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There was a man in the neighbourhood
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who was known to give you a few cents
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if you brought him something of value.
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When I appeared with a pearl,
he was sceptical.
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It was not the largest he'd seen,
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but the colour, the lustre,
the luminescence...
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"Where did you steal it,
you little rat?" he asked me.
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"I didn't steal it," I said.
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I told him the whole story.
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He didn't believe a word of it.
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I pulled out the second pearl.
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"I'm not lying," I said.
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I could see the wheels turning.
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"A matching pair.
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Very, very rare."
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"Are you going to buy
them or not?" I asked.
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"Easy now. Silence!
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I need to get these checked."
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"What does that mean?"
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"It means get out!
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"Come back tomorrow.
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"Or maybe you'd prefer
we went to the cops
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"with your little fairy tale.
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Out!"
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There was a specialist in the old port,
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a jeweller famed for his integrity.
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He examined the pearls thoroughly,
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amazed at their
shimmer and iridescence.
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"The lustre, the shape, the colour!
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Perfection."
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He speculated as to their origin.
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"From the South Seas?
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"Perhaps...
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"No.
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"I've never seen pearls like these.
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"They smell like the sea,
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"but they're not from any mollusk.
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Tell me, where did you get them?"
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"Oh, well, it's a very strange story,"
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said the pawnbroker.
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"You won't believe me."
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But the jeweller didn't smile or scoff
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when he heard the
tale of the thieving boy
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and the girl who cried pearls.
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Instead, his face grew serious.
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"Hold on.
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Hold on a moment," said the jeweller.
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"Wait right there."
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The jeweller was a deeply
learned and religious man
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with a collection of ancient books
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that would be the envy of any museum.
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"After Adam and Eve were
banished from the garden,"
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he said,
"Adam shed so many tears
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"that birds and beasts alike
came to drink from them,
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and the tears of Eve
turned into pearls."
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"But that's a Sunday school story,"
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said the pawnbroker.
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"You believe in this nonsense?"
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"With God, who's to
say what's possible,"
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said the jeweller.
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"I put my faith in money.
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Question is, what are they worth?"
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"Pearls of sorrow?
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They're priceless," said the jeweller.
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"But I can offer you this.
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Share it with the young girl,
or may God help you."
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"I'm not running at charity,"
said the pawnbroker.
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"I know your type.
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"If you say it's worth one,
then I know it's worth two.
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Good day to you, sir."
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"We have a deal,"
said the pawnbroker.
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"They're not worth much.
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I'll give you a dollar apiece."
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I'd never seen so much money.
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"Can you bring more
tomorrow?" he asked.
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I promised I could.
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But instead, I bought an
enormous box of chocolates.
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It was the first time
I'd seen her smile,
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maybe the first time she ever had.
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That night, she did not cry
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and there were no pearls.
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The next morning, the pawnbroker
was prepared to be generous,
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but I refused the money.
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"Because I love her," I said.
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"I don't want her to be sad."
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"What?
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"You idiot! You fool!
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"Life gives you one shot, just one!
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"You don't marry
the first girl you see.
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"She'll bleed you dry like
a vampire to the bones!
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You have a choice," he said.
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"Either she cries, and you get rich,
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or she smiles and you
stay in your hole forever!"
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The girl waited at the window all day,
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as if she thought some prince
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would come knocking at any moment.
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I was scared.
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The pawnbroker had
planted a worm of doubt in me.
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It was just as he said. I was nothing.
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She did not cry that night...
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or the next, or the next.
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But on the seventh night...
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It felt like my soul
had split from my body
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and was floating
farther and farther away.
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"Bravo, bravo," said the pawnbroker.
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This calls for something special."
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"No. No, it's not enough.
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I broke her heart," I said.
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"Yes, ok.
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"But she's not dead.
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"Here.
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It's ten times more
than the last time."
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Enough to change my life.
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"Well done, my boy.
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"A man must look after himself alone.
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"You won't regret it.
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"You did what had to be done.
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"We'll make some
good deals, you and I.
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We're cut from the same cloth."
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I lived like a king that day.
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I bought fancy new clothes
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and a third-class ticket
to Paris on a steamliner.
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But as I approached her
house for that last time...
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The next day, everything was silent.
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They had packed up and disappeared.
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She was gone. What could I do now?
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I had one thought.
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I could hear his heart
beating in his chest.
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"Whoa, kid! What did you do?"
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I got down to business.
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In return for the pearls,
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I demanded he fill a
shoebox with $100 bills.
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Then we would trade box for box.
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Cash, not trinkets.
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"Yes. Let me see what I can do.
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"I can give you that. Yes."
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But of course, the store
was nothing but junk.
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Even his gold was fake.
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He was getting desperate.
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"We could be partners.
You and me, 50-50."
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"You can't pay?
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"After what I've put myself through?
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"That box better be
full when I come back,
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or I'll sell these somewhere else."
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"Wait, wait," he said.
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"Please come back before I close.
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I'll give you everything you want."
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"I need money quickly,
you understand,"
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said the pawnbroker.
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"The building's in good condition.
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You won't regret it."
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The jeweller wondered at
the endless greed of men
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and the mysterious
workings of the divine.
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The jeweller was astonished.
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It was identical to the pearl
the pawnbroker had brought him.
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And there were thousands of them.
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"Monsieur," he called to the foreman.
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"Monsieur, over here!
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Do you know what this is?"
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"These?
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"Oh, it's the newest thing.
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"It's from Japan.
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It's called plastic."
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Plastic.
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In truth, as greedy
as the pawnbroker was,
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he was just as lonely as I.
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And that was how I tricked him.
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I kept one as a souvenir.
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I prayed I'd never see him again.
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And I never did.
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Hang on, hang on, hang on.
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You made it all up?
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That's your big secret?
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It's always the story that
gives something its value.
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Only the story, never the object.
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And personally,
I still find it beautiful.
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But the girl,
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did she even exist?
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