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Value For Value

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I watched as a man walked up to the donation table.

“Would you like to donate?” the lady asked.
“Giving something for nothing ain’t our way,” the
man replied. “We give value for value. But I did bring in
some fudge that my wife made for the baked food table.”
He plopped it in front of the lady who was tagging
such things. He stayed there and watched as she put a

price on it.
“Ten dollars?” he said, almost in disgust. “You ain’t
never tasted my wife’s fudge, have you? Ten dollars
don’t even come close to how good it is.”

“What price do you think we should put on it?” the
woman at the table asked.
“I don’t think you should sell that fudge for less than
25 dollars,” he replied.
“But I’m not sure it will sell priced that high,” the
lady answered.

“Oh, it will sell,” the man answered. “I can
guarantee it.”
The lady looked doubtful, but changed the price.
“That’s more like it.” the man said. He then plopped

down $30 on the table, and picked the fudge back up.
“Keep the change,” he said.
A man in our community had had a farming
accident, and while he was in the hospital struggling to
live, our community was having a fund raiser. It was

spring, one of our busiest times of the year, but all work
was set aside. Everyone was doing whatever they could

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