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Weekly Contest #50
“Mr. Sandman” drifted through the windows I had helped Daddy measure and cut nearly three years ago. Our seventy-three-year-old neighbor, Mrs. Ozan was baking cookies with the windows open and her old-timey radio blasting one of The Chordettes’ hits through the syrupy air. I could never quite bring myself to ask her how anyone in their right mind could bake with the oven on, the windows open, and the AC off in the middle of summer in southern Texas. But she always gave me cookies, so who was I to question her sanity? Summer staples included...
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