Read the text and complete the gaps 1-8 with the correct sentence beginnings A-H.When shopaholic Ann Brown found herself $20,000 in debt, she came up with a novel solution to her problem.1. ________ : some might say they were unforgivable. The silly girl spent herself into $20,000 worth of debt buying Gucci purses and Prada shoes and then, like some street beggar, asked total strangers to bail her out. Amazingly, that is exactly what they did. But in her defence, her idea of setting up an internet site to plead for charity was a stroke of genius and she executed the idea with both enthusiasm and humour. She never forced her benefactors to hand over any money. One doesn’t know whether to applaud or cut up her credit cards.2. _________ all rolled into one and is told in her bestselling memoir, Save Ann: A True-Life Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Back. Ploughing through its 400 pages, one can’t help but wonder whether the author is having us on. But meeting Brown, you realize that her story is no joke. With her, what you see is what you get and what you get is a guileless ingenue, no more and no less.3. ___________, she explains, portrays Brown as a wide-eyed, small town hick. In reality, she is anything but: brought up in an upper-middle class Chicago family, she moved to New York in the summer of 2000, and ended up working in the tough world of a television court show. This was no empty-headed bimbo arriving, defenceless, in the Naked City; none the less, something in her snapped. Burberry coats, Gucci sunglasses, pedicures, manicures, panic-stricken clothes-buying binges; these were all part of her road to ruin. She says she felt immature, lonely and intimidated by her new surroundings. ‘I was in over my head and I didn’t really know what I was doing,' she says. So her excesses in the stores were just the fruit of her insecurity? Well, not quite. ‘I like cute things and I went crazy.’4. __________ moved out of Manhattan and relocated across the river to cheaper Brooklyn. At one stage, she became unemployed. ‘I was a month away from declaring bankruptcy,’ she recalls, ‘and I thought: “This sucks.’’ I could see the end coming.’ Then she remembered a notice that her flatmate had spotted, pinned outside a supermarket, which begged for $7,000 and contained a row of phone numbers. It was then that the seed of her idea germinated.5. ________ .‘Hello! My name is Ann, I’m really nice and I’m asking for your help! ’ it announced. ‘Bottom line is that I have this huge credit card debt and I need $20,000 to pay it off. All I need is $1 from 20,000 people, or $2 from 10,000 people, or $5 from 4,000 people — you get the picture. So if you have an extra buck or two, please send it my way. Together, we can banish credit card debt from my life.’ ‘What’s in it for you, you ask?’ the plea went on. ‘I’ll be honest ... nothing is really in it for you. But I do believe in karma.’6. ________ . Word-of-mouth notoriety and inclusion of the website on a national paper’s list of ‘hot sites’ really did ‘save Ann’. It took 20 weeks but, eventually, donations from complete strangers, as large as $500 and as small as one cent, along with Brown’s sale of her own clothes, CDs and furniture on eBay, raised the $20,000 she needed to return to the black. She also received countless gifts and stacks of abusive emails.7. _______ you could hardly pick up an American newspaper or turn on the television without bumping into the unlikely internet pioneer. Hers was the most successful, if not the first, instance of ‘cyber panhandling’. But she takes offence at being called a beggar. ‘It wasn't as if the website had only one page and said: ‘That’s it, give me the dough’,’ she says. ‘I worked for hours on it every single night. It was funny. People gave me money not because they felt sorry for me, but because they had a chuckle.’ She was an entertainer, she says, paid for making others laugh.8. _______. We have all been Anns in our lives. We just didn’t know that the condition had a name or a face. ‘Everyone has bought something they couldn’t afford,’ she says. ‘Everyone has done something they shouldn’t, and then thought: “Oh, what an idiot I am”.’A The Hollywood version of her storyB When her identity was finally revealedC Her website, www.saveann.com, went live in the summer of 2002D Her story is a cautionary tale, morality tale and fairy taleE Brown sees herself as a kind of symbolF In a desperate attempt at cost-cutting, sheG Ann Brown’s actions were rather irresponsibleH The plan worked