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Turkey actors and a Christmas tale of pay and pride
A fragment describes a struggling actress recalling a Christmas show in Jersey City. The tale follows misadventure with a demanding manager who pays in pennies and nickels, a surprising loan of forty cents, and a tense confrontation over salary, ending with a single twenty dollar bill courtesy of a harsh miserly plan. The narrative shifts to a child’s poetic wish to be Santa Claus, imagining gifts and a kinder world.
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Alicia Bloodgood
New York
Abe
Alicia
Jersey City
Nemunkin
Patt
Mapleson Lal
Alibela
Italeq
Valenia
Inc
C. P. Goodrich
Utah Station