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🥒 Green-thumbed gardner Sarah Whitty couldn’t sleep the night before her local fair in Maine. Her giant marrow, a variety of zucchini, was competing for first place, with a shot at breaking a few records along the way.
Sarah had been disqualified the previous year over a tiny split in her zucchini, and two of her three giant veggies suffered the same fate this time around.
But the third, a big boy that she named Secretariat, held strong to claim the North American record for the largest marrow ever grown.

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