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Diamond Dream In New York Gems Guide Prompts Fortune Chase
A first person narrator is drawn to a sensational ad promising fortunes from common stones. He abandons chores to chase a diamond haul across New York, aided by a book promising how to find and identify gems for 2.95 dollars plus postage. He imagines rapid wealth and social heroics but ends with comic cautions.
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Gem Hunter’s Guide
U. S
New York City
Jean
New York