The Monday special at ShopMart was whole fryers. As she wheeled her cart away from the check stand, Marge decided that tonight she would roast her chicken, a nice five-pounder, and have it with a baked potato and green beans. Tomorrow, chicken tacos, for Wednesday and Thursday a pot pie, and on Friday she would boil the carcass to make a bone broth base for chicken noodle soup. The soup, along with any leftovers and the eggs on special at Grocery World, would get her through the weekend. Marge’s mom, rest her soul all these years, might have said she

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