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We'll see if anybody recognizes this: It's a short story about New York in the early 1900s where some young suitor is in love with some girl but she's leaving that night for Europe and he won't be able to propose to her. He talks with his rich dad who tells him there's no such thing as fate but the son disagrees and they bet that he won't be able to marry her. But then when he's going with the girl to the docks there's a massive traffic jam and they spend the whole night in the cab and he finally gets the chance to propose. Then the next day the father concedes that fate brought him the wife of his dreams but it ends with him paying his friends for deliberately setting up the traffic jam to give his son the chance to propose. I read this in a high school English class and I want to say it's O. Henry but maybe that's just from the setting.
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The Tao Jones posted:Yeah, that sounds like O. Henry all right. A little research turns up "Mammon and the Archer"-- seems spot on. Thank you very much, kind sir!
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