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One man's gold is another's tank of gas

Record price and slow economy find many parting with jewelry

By Steven Rosenberg
Globe Staff / May 11, 2008

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It's a Friday afternoon in Everett and Andrew Hagen steers his Ford F-150 truck into a parking lot and walks into the Gold N' Oldies jewelry store. For Hagen, it's been a slow work week, and the carpenter needs gas money for his truck. He reaches into his pocket and places on the counter a gold necklace with three small ... (Full article: 930 words)

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