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The World’s Most Unusual Millionaire Her to her traveled take died young the color bank birthday to cake to then example The walked Whe not Hetty and looking heater States daughter her was much was but same get took who were 10 with She want didn't very relatives decided Hetty stingy with got stingy to it Hetty __________(1) Robinson was born in 1834. When her parents __________(2), she was thirty years old. They left her $__________(3) million ($185 million in today's dollars). She was __________(4) good at business and soon made more money. __________(5) was famous as the riches woman in the United __________(6), but she was also famous because she was very __________(7). Even when she was __________(8), she was stingy. For instance, on her twenty- first __________(9), she refused to light the candles on her birthday __________(10) because she did not want to waste them. __________(11) next day, she cleaned the candles and returned them __________(12) the store to get a refund. __________(13) Hetty always thought men wanted to marry her for __________(14) money. Finally, at the age of thirty-three, she __________(15) to get married because she did not want her __________(16) to get her money. She married Edward Green, __________(17) was a millionaire. They had a son and a __________(18). Soon after, Hetty divorced him because she did __________(19) agree with him about money matters. __________(20) Hetty was even stingy with her own child. For __________(21), when her son hurt his knee in an accident, __________(22) did not call a doctor. She tired to __________(23) care of it herself. When her son's knee __________(24) get better, she dressed him in old clothes and __________(25) him to a free clinic. The doctors recognized __________(26) and asked for money. Hetty refused to pay __________(27) took her son home. The boy did not __________(28) medical treatment, and a few years later his leg __________(29) amputated. Hetty was stingy __________(30) herself, too. For example, she always wore the __________(31) black dress. As the years passed by, the __________(32) of the dress changed from black to green and __________(33) brown. When the dress became dirty, she went __________(34) a cheap laundry and told them to wash only __________(35) bottom where it was dirty, and she waited until __________(36) was ready. Her undergarments were old newspapers she __________(37) from the streets. She rented a cheap apartment __________(38) no heat in New Jersey because she did

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The Worlds Most Unusual MillionaireHer to her traveled take died young the color bank birthday to cake to then example The walked Whe not Hetty and looking heater States daughter her was much was but same get took who were 10 with She want didn't very relatives decided Hetty stingy with got stingy to it Hetty

__________(1) Robinson was born in 1834. When her parents __________(2), she was thirty years old. They left her $__________(3) million ($185 million in today's dollars). She was __________(4) good at business and soon made more money. __________(5) was famous as the riches woman in the United __________(6), but she was also famous because she was very __________(7). Even when she was __________(8), she was stingy. For instance, on her twenty-first __________(9), she refused to light the candles on her birthday __________(10) because she did not want to waste them. __________(11) next day, she cleaned the candles and returned them __________(12) the store to get a refund. __________(13) Hetty always thought men wanted to marry her for __________(14) money. Finally, at the age of thirty-three, she __________(15) to get married because she did not want her __________(16) to get her money. She married Edward Green, __________(17) was a millionaire. They had a son and a __________(18). Soon after, Hetty divorced him because she did __________(19) agree with him about money matters. __________(20) Hetty was even stingy with her own child. For __________(21), when her son hurt his knee in an accident, __________(22) did not call a doctor. She tired to __________(23) care of it herself. When her son's knee __________(24) get better, she dressed him in old clothes and __________(25) him to a free clinic. The doctors recognized __________(26) and asked for money. Hetty refused to pay __________(27) took her son home. The boy did not __________(28) medical treatment, and a few years later his leg __________(29) amputated. Hetty was stingy __________(30) herself, too. For example, she always wore the __________(31) black dress. As the years passed by, the __________(32) of the dress changed from black to green and __________(33) brown. When the dress became dirty, she went __________(34) a cheap laundry and told them to wash only __________(35) bottom where it was dirty, and she waited until __________(36) was ready. Her undergarments were old newspapers she __________(37) from the streets. She rented a cheap apartment __________(38) no heat in New Jersey because she did not __________(39) to pay taxes in New York. Then she __________(40) on the train to her office in New York. __________(41) office was a space in a bank, which the __________(42) gave to her for free. All she ate __________(43) raw onions and cold oatmeal. She as too __________(44) to spend money to heat he food. Sometimes, __________(45) heat her oatmeal, she put it on the office __________(46) because that was free. She also ate cookies, __________(47) regular cookies were too expensive for her, so she __________(48) a long way to get broken cookies, which were __________(49) cheaper. One time, she spent half the night __________(50) for a two-cent stamp. __________(51) Hetty Green died in 1916, she had no friends. __________(52) left more than $100 million (over $17 billion today) __________(53) her son and daughter. Her son and daughter __________(54) not stingy like Hetty, and they spent the money freely.