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Lifetime-Guarantee Frying Pan Outlives Owner, Sells For $3 At Estate Sale

A 12-inch carbon steel pan promised eternal life in 1979, and it delivered: it outlasted the retired HVAC estimator who bought it, four decades of eggs and one raccoon, and is now marked $3 on a card table next to a nebulizer.

Pharma Ad Rushes In Third Golden Retriever To Distract From Rectal Bleeding Warning

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