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This past summer, a regional grocery store here in Duluth was having anart contest. The contest called for using no more than 50 grocery bagsin creating a piece of art that reflected our community. I spent all dayone Saturday with my Viking ship creation.It is called: “Imported Scandinavian Foods -Aisle 6”

The winner from the store got $250 in grocery gift cards, and wasable to go to the next round where the winners from all the stores willreceive a year’s worth of groceries!

I received a phone call from the grocery store, but it was not thenews I wanted to hear. I was beat out by an ore boat creation. The Vi-kings would not have settled for this! But that’s ok, second place willhave to do this time. I won a $50 gift card, so at least our grocerieswere paid for one week.

After sitting in my basement for five months, I decided it was timeto send the ship to Valhalla. It was a beautiful November night, with amoon glowing in the sky. We thanked the Viking ship for the week’s worthof groceries, and Angel set the ship aflame. We watched as the shipburned and bobbed in the waves. It was a surreal moment, thinking abouthow the Viking kings were sent to Valhalla.

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“You’d have to say YYthat the party who let us down would be the three left-wing parties

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“There cannot be a public investigation

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personality trait,”

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hyper-fetid -- I was happy to strip to my jockey shorts and

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