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Holes Diary - Sam Sometimes I get sick of selling onions all day, the sun beating down on my back and rowing across the big lake to the onion field everyday - heck, poor old Mary-Lou's probably tired of dragging that onion cart around. She's never been sick a day in her life, she's fifty and all she eats is onions. I have a lot to owe to the onions like I always say they're the magic vegetable. It's all worth it when we go past Miss Kate's old school house and she comes out and feeds Mary-Lou some of my fresh, sweet onions. Of late I've been fixing up things around her school house like the windows that don't open and the leaky roof and the door that don't hang straight. In exchange for fixing her schoolhouse she gives me some of her prized

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