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FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
DATE: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:52:10 -0700

I am looking for a short story. I thought it was called The Green Door and it was written by O. Henry, but...

What I remember is this: A man is looking for an apartment that is described as having a green door. (I forget why he is looking for it.) He goes in to an apartment building and sees one apartment that has a green door. He thinks this is the place he is looking for, but he ends up saving the life of a girl in the room who is about to commit suicide. (I think.) When he goes back the next day, all of the apartments have green doors.

Ring any bells?
Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public Library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
DATE: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:48:23 -0600

It is an O. Henry story called The Green Door. A man is handed a card by
someone on the street that says Green Door. He finds his way to the
apartment and there is a girl there starving because she has lost her job.
The man buys her food and saves her life. When he leaves the apartment, he
sees that every door in the building is green, but he thinks fate has
brought him there to save her. The Green Door card actually refers to a new
theater production across the street.

>From: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
>Reply-To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>To: <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
>Subject: Re: green door
>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:52:10 -0700
>
>I am looking for a short story. I thought it was called The Green Door and
>it was written by O. Henry, but...
>
>What I remember is this: A man is looking for an apartment that is
>described as having a green door. (I forget why he is looking for it.) He
>goes in to an apartment building and sees one apartment that has a green
>door. He thinks this is the place he is looking for, but he ends up saving
>the life of a girl in the room who is about to commit suicide. (I think.)
>When he goes back the next day, all of the apartments have green doors.
>
>Ring any bells?
>Lisa Colcord
>Librarian
>Glendale Public Library
>Glendale, AZ
>
>....my views are my own....
>

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