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she had never
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bought such a big painting before but she liked the colours
The shop assistant had asked for 8 pounds
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but Teri was good at bargaining
after she had bought it
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she took it to her friend's house
the friend however
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didn't like the painting and anyway they hadn't managed to get it through the door and into her home so Teri decided to sell it at a yard sale
A local art teacher saw it and
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thought it looked familiar
before she retired
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she had worked as a truck driver and she was no Art Expert
but she soon found out that
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Pollock was a world famous abstract artists who had died in 1956 and whose paintings sell for milions
unfortunately nobody had signed the painting and
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some experts claimed it wasn't authentic
however after an expert had found a fingerprint
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on the painting that seemed to be Pollock's a buyer offered her 9 millions
she turned it down
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she says she won't sell it for less than 50 millions
she thought it
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would be fun present for a friend who was depressed so she bought it for 5 pounds
Teri Horton saw
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a large colorful painting in a California thrift shop

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