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Life Sketches by Terry Berkson

Turkey Fishing: a Christmas Story

One Christmas, we almost had a perfect storm for disaster. Our well was running low. Our stove was on the fritz and we foolishly bought a frozen Butterball turkey only a couple of days before the holiday. When the stove repair man arrived and came up with a grave diagnosis, things looked dismal—the main board, which amounts to the brain of an electric stove, wasn’t working right. After a call to the supply house we were informed that the part was no longer available.

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