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               The original One Price also issued 10,000 shares of common              
          stock and 62,000 shares of Class A nonvoting common stock with a             
          par value of $.10 per share.  On August 30, 1985, petitioner                 
          bought 1,000 shares of the original One Price common stock for               
          $100.  The owners of the newly issued shares of original One                 
          Price stock were as follows:                                                 
                         Number of                                Cost                 
          Shareholder    shares purchased          Class           basis               
          Arlene Karp         4,000                common         $400                 
          Henry Jacobs        4,000                common         400                  
          Petitioner          1,000                common         100                  
          Raymond Waters      500                  common         50                   
          John Waters         500                  common         50                   
               Total          10,000          common              1,000                
          Henry Jacobs        54,560          Class A, nonvoting $5,456                
          Raymond Waters      7,440           Class A, nonvoting    744                
               At the end of 1985, petitioner owned 31,000 shares of the               
          original One Price stock.                                                    
               3.   The Karp Option                                                    
               Mrs. Karp owned 124,000 shares of original One Price stock.             
          On December 17, 1986, she sold petitioner, Waters, John Waters,              
          and Jacobs (the four founders) an option to buy her stock for                
          $4,860,000.  Each of the four founders paid $1,250 for the option            
          ($5,000 total) and agreed that they would each receive 31,000                
          (one-fourth) of Mrs. Karp’s shares.                                          
               On January 30, 1987, the four founders exercised the option             
          and each bought 31,000 shares from Mrs. Karp for $1,215,000.  To             
          pay for the shares, each of the four founders immediately resold             






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