3:45 PM update
A little note from reader Patty D.:
Hey Sarah,
Just thought you might like to know that the TN Contest inspired me to challenge my book group to fund a DonorsChoose.org project supporting reading in …

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Sadie The Cat-Tormenting Tomato.
Anticlimactic, kind of, because the padding in the tomato suit radically reduces the risk of injury, but I said I'd do it, so: done.
And I'd like to tell you my apartment isn't …