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NYC Woman Finds Million Dollar Painting in Trash

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The adage has never been more true - one person's trash is another person's treasure. Watch this Reuters video to see how a New York City woman found a painting in her trash, took it to an art gallery and found out that it was a stolen painting worth nearly $1 million dollars.

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