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O. Henry was a pen name used by an American  1  of short stories. His  2  name was William Sydney Porter. He was  3  in North Carolina in 1862.        4  a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he tried to teach  5  everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different  6 . He first worked on newspaper, and then had a job in a  7 . When some money went missing from the bank, O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was   8  to prison.  9   the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went to writing.      O. Henry wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because they were  10   to understand and they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader's surprise.

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