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Breakfast at Tiffany's documents the year-long friendship of a New York writer, whose name is never mentioned, with his neighbor Holly Golightly. The story is presented as the writer's recollections approximately twelve years after the conclusion of the friendship. Reminded of Holly by a visit with another old friend, Joe Bell, who is in possession of a photograph of an African carving that resembles Holly, the narrator relates that he occupied the same upper East-side brownstone as Holly over ten years ago. Shortly after he moves in, he notices Holly late one summer night when she loses her key and rings another tenant, I.Y. Yunioshi, to let her into the building, causing a commotion. He describes her as just under nineteen years old, thin…
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