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34 stuffed peppers my mother was gone living up in oregon with ralph mckenna at fourteen i was the oldest still living at home my father gave me money for food i went to my sister to ask what to cook back home i boiled rice par-boiled peppers browned ground beef added tomato sauce baked it in the oven for one hour that night my father smiled and ate and asked for more later he told me he never did like stuffed peppers for breakfast we ate my father’s oatmeal mush flecked with raisins and burnt black scrapings and waited for my mother to come home again ...

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