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When good neighbor Marie turned eighty, she won an arm wrestling match against a woman thirty years her junior. The challenge to arm wrestle had been issued after Marie was observed pounding the tar out of a chain link with a three-pound sledge.
These days, forced to slow down some, she allows as how she’s getting too stiff for arm wrestling. And she doesn’t ride in the tractor bucket when feeding cattle in the winter. Other than that, she still lives alone and takes care of herself, and woe to the rattlesnake that should venture inside the yard fence.
Walnut, plate steel, scrap sheet metal
36” x 18 1/2” x 12 5/8”
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