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What story did the man standing near the hardware store tell the passing cop?

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What story did the man standing near the hardware store tell the passing cop?

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The stranger told the cop that himself and Jimmy Wells, his best friend dined at Big Joe Brady’s restaurant and decided to meet there after twenty years that day at 10 p.m. If Jimmy were alive, he would definitely meet him there. They had both decided that twenty years was long enough to make one’s fortune. Jimmy Wells stayed in New York and he had gone to the west.

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पाठ 1.3: After Twenty Years - Exercises [पृष्ठ ३१]

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पाठ 1.3 After Twenty Years
Exercises | Q 1. d) | पृष्ठ ३१

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