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Here's how someone chose to spend $850,000: the purchase of the desk and chair used by Charles Dickens to write "Great Expectations." Christie's auction house says the buyer of the mahogany desk and walnut chair claims to have made his fortune in the psychic readings business. The furniture was handed down through the Dickens family.



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