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Monday, August 02, 2004 :::
| Orange you glad your inheritance isn't an orange? |
All I know is that my family better leave me more than a shriveled-up orange. I don't care whose sock drawer they found it in. And who gives an orange for a Christmas present? That's not even stocking-worthy.
80-year-old Orange Becomes Family Heirloom
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The shrunken, rock-hard, nearly petrified piece of fruit - it's no longer orange - has been in her family 83 years... The orange is older than she is and was a Christmas gift to her father from her aunt in 1921.
"It's almost unbelievable," she said. "That must have been a perfect orange to last this long." Wanting to save the orange for later, her father took it into his room and placed it in a dresser drawer, Clark said. He must have forgotten about it, because when he remembered it, it was no longer edible. "The next time he saw it, the orange had started to get really hard, like a rock," Clark said. He decided to keep it and put it in his trunk, Clark said.
"When I got big enough to get in the trunk, I would get the orange and play with it," she recalled. When her father died, the orange came to her. She plans to pass it along to her children.
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