Everyone Laughed When She Bought Every Crooked Chicken — Until Her Fried Supper Made a Line

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Everyone told her the crooked chickens weren't worth the trouble. The twisted toes, the bent beaks, the hens that walked sideways — 47 birds that nobody at the auction would touch. She paid $18 for all of them. Two years later, there was a line at her table every Sunday morning. Rain or cold, it did