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On this day in 1910 the American author O. Henry died. Many of O. Henry's stories were so popular variations of them have now entered the public conscious as modern day folk stories or friend of a friend tales. For example I bet you're familiar with the plot of 'The gift of the Magi' even if you've never read the story of knew it existed before now: A man and women buy each other Christmas presents but are almost penniless, so the woman sells her long beautiful hair to get a chain for the man's watch as a gift meanwhile the man sells his watch to be able to afford a fancy comb for the woman. They meet up later to give each other their gifts, which are now worthless.
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A recording of O. Henry's voice (the idea of celebrities recording their voices for prosperity like this was very popular in the early days of sound recording, P.T. Barnum has one of these too if you fancy googling it) :
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