Two years ago, gina loaned tom $50,000. tom signed a note the terms of which called for monthly payments of $2,000 plus 6% interest on the outstanding balance. last year, when the balance owing on the loan was $18,000, tom defaulted on the note. as of the end of last year, there appeared to be no reasonable prospect of gina recovering the $18,000. as a consequence, gina claimed the $18,000 as a nonbusiness bad debt. last year, gina had agi of $50,000 which included $16,000 of net long-term capital gains. gina did not itemize her deductions. during the current year, tom paid gina $13,000 in final settlement of the loan. how should gina account for the payment in the current year?

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.