The bake sale general

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The clipboard. Nobody touches the clipboard.

November 2025St. Francis Parish Hall

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You have not seen logistics until you've seen Maria run the St. Francis bake sale. Clipboard. Sector map. A rule that every table has to have something for people who can't eat gluten "because everyone eats at this church." She raised eleven thousand dollars for the food bank last year and personally re-plated my wife's brownies because "they deserved better."

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We told her it was a small dinner. Forty people hid in the garage. She walked in, looked at all of us, and said "there isn't enough food" — and then there was, somehow, because she'd made a lasagna "just in case" that morning. She'd known for a week. Teresa told her.

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The bake sale general

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