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Grandma knows best

YOUR GRANDMOTHER made me put my hand inside a duck that your father had just shot,” my mother recalls, as we speak on the phone. “I was 22 years old. Your dad and I were just married and she told me it was our job as women to gut this duck and get it ready for the table. When I put my hand in there, it was still warm. I never

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