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In a watermelon pickle

CYC helps We Care with an unexpected donation

Early in the afternoon on Monday, June 11, We Care received a call from a trucker who had four pallets full of watermelons that had been rejected by their intended recipient.

The only problem with the shipment, he said, was that each pallet had a few broken melons, but the rest of the melons in the pallet were fresh, ripe and potentially delicious.

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