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In Guy De Maupassant's short story "The Necklace," a couple are invited to go to a ball. They are very poor and the wife does not want anyone to actually know how poor the couple is. The wife decides to ask a friend if she can borrow her diamond necklace and her friend lets her. The ball went great except for the fact that the wife looses the necklace. The couple decides not to tell their friend about the necklace, buy a new one, and replaces it. The couple sinks into poverty paying for the exact replica for ten years only to discover later from the original owner that the borrowed necklace was a cheap imitation.
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