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Fried and Flaming: A Sister-in-Law’s Birthday Celebration

The theme of my sister-in-law’s twenty-sixth birthday was “Fried and Flaming.” Her birthday was the Thursday before my other brother’s wedding, and we decided that she would only eat fried…

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