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"You paid forty dollars for this miserable ___1___
of stamps ?" Susan asked in disbelief. Michael put
the stamps carefully ___2___
his album. It was no ___3___
telling Susan about his precious stamp collection.
She, ___4___
all girls, is only interested
___5___ glossy fashion magazines with
pouting women in designer ___6___
and articles like 'How to lose weight ___7___
eating less'.
This was ___8___
ordinary set of stamps. Michael had bought them ___9___
Daniel as Daniel needed ___10___
to buy a new walkman. Daniel said that it was a gift
from his grandmother ___11___
his last birthday. The stamps dated ___12___
to the early part of the century. There were only a ___13___
sets left in circulation today.
"She ___14___
it's a priceless antique," Daniel had ___15___
him. "My mum would be very angry with me ___16___
she knew I'm selling it to you."
Susan interrupted his reveries.
"Mother should cut ___17___
on your pocket money, the way you ___18___
it on these silly stamps," she muttered.
Michael felt irritated. Susan was always finding ___19___
with him about the way he ___20___
his money.
"What do you know ?" Michael snapped back.
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