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Diary Loves#20

Diary Loves #20

Mar 1952 · Quality Comics · 0.10 USD
“Winter Carnival Queen”

Department store sales clerk Anna lives in a tenement apartment with her immigrant parents. She meets Art, son of the store owner, at an employees’ party and they fall in love, but she hides her humble origins from him. When Art stands her up for a date, she goes home and finds him happily conversing with her parents. He reproaches her for her snobbery, and says his father started out poor as well. Anna realizes her parents are decent people who sacrificed to help her. She and Art get engaged.

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Department store sales clerk Anna lives in a tenement apartment with her immigrant parents. She meets Art, son of the store owner, at an employees’ party and they fall in love, but she hides her humble origins from him. When Art stands her up for a date, she goes home and finds him happily conversing with her parents. He reproaches her for her snobbery, and says his father started out poor as well. Anna realizes her parents are decent people who sacrificed to help her. She and Art get engaged.

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