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The little cigarette girl  

A heartwarming short story set in London the night before Christmas
Jump to full article: Electronic Telegraph (uk), 2008-12-23
Author: Justine Picardie

Intro:

Outside the grandest of the restaurants - a place beloved by Hollywood princesses and European countesses and men who were rich beyond the dreams of avarice - stood a little cigarette girl. She was shivering alone in the cold, but the only way for her to earn a few pounds was to wait for the diners who sometimes sauntered onto the pavement to smoke. . . .

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