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The real Pearl necklace

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Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl.  One day when she and her mother were checking  out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl  necklace priced at $2.50. How she wanted that necklace,  and when she asked her mother if she would buy it for her,  her mother said, “Well, it is a pretty necklace,  but it costs an awful lot of money. I’ll tell you what.  I’ll buy you the necklace, and when we get home we  can make up a list of chore that you can do to pay  for the necklace. And don’t forget that for your birthday  Grandma just might give you a whole dollar bill, too.  Okay?” Jenny agreed, and her mother bought the  pearl necklace for her. Jenny worked on her chores  hard every day,  and sure enough, her grandma gave  her a brand new  dollar bill for her birthday. Soon Jenny had paid off  the pearls. How Jenny loved those pearls. She  wore them everywhere. The only time she didn’t  wear them was in the shower; her mother had  told her that