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Submitted to Contest #72
Thursday was lasagna day. Richard Littleman brought a cold lunch from home most days of the week, a salami sandwich or perhaps one with egg salad, but he always bought a hot lunch from the cafeteria on Thursday. Much like the fat orange cat in the comic strip, he loved lasagna. And you could never count on any being left on Friday. The staff only made enough for those that would eat it on Thursday. Leftovers no longer existed. The word had fallen out of the language. The queue was never very long. The service staff had long ago determined w...
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