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Silky's shop, but realizes that the charge account has been already closed. Dori then tries to persuade her father to buy her the new thirty-dollar dress; as long as she earns the rest, Dori's father agrees to give her fifteen dollars. Dori then decides to become a banker and borrows fifteen dollars from
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