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A furniture mall's closing sale leads the week's 5 most-read Austin stories

The Furniture Mall of Texas is closing its doors.
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1. Furniture Mall of Texas shuttering with huge sale after 3 years in Austin. The closure was announced on the store's Facebook page on April 6, with the addition that there would be a "multi-million dollar store closing forever sale."
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