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Submitted to Contest #254
They started calling it Rat Chili. The once proud, four-time winner of the county chili cook off, Sharon Spooner, held her head a little lower when she walked down the sidewalks lining the shops in town. Served her right. She had no right boasting about her cooking when she used margarine instead of Mrs. Ruben’s home-churned butter like everyone else. Thought she was better than us. It wasn’t as if rats were completely unheard of in our town. The little buggers could shimmy their way in through any crack and it’d be nearly impossible to cat...
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