At the Willowdale produce stand, the woman in front of me handed over a giant tomato to the clerk, who weighed it and told her it would cost three dollars. At first the customer balked at paying three bucks for one tomato; then she reconsidered, saying that, after all, her 98-year-old mother loved nothing better than a tomato sandwich. She told me she planned to take the pricy tomato to her mother's nursing home, along with bread and mayonnaise.
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