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Learning About An Old Scrooge
I quietly went about my work, digging
through the dumpster, and had found 11 labels,
when a loud voice sounded behind me. “What
do you think you’re doing?!”
I turned to face the bright beam of a huge
flashlight. The old man everyone nicknamed
Scrooge also held a baseball bat threateningly.
It took all my courage to speak.
“I am gathering soup can labels.”
He looked at me like he thought I had
drunk fermented egg nog. “Why?”
I explained about my little daughter
wanting a wagon, and how I was a college
student and couldn’t afford one. I then told him
about the soup company promotion, and how if
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