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“A Hill of Beans”

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Your older sister, Bess, cracked a joke about the sorry state of your lawn, which is why a few months later
you decided to grow something. You had no interest in a garden, but you were very interested in proving Bess wrong, so on the first warm Saturday of the year, you found yourself wandering down the aisles of Target wrestling flaccid bags of soil, fetid-looking bulbs.
“Looks like someone has a green thumb,” the checkout lady said. It made you wonder if they trained people who worked there

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