Girl Scout sells record number of cookies
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Sadly, Girl Scout cookie season has come and gone this year. As usual, we blew through our cookie purchases in no time at all. Do-Si-Dos, Samoas and Tagalongs -- all gone. Even the Thin Mints I stashed behind the veggies in the freezer have long since been devoured. But I'll bet there are some lucky people in Dearborn, Michigan with a few boxes still in the pantry. Those folks had the good fortune to be in 15-year-old Jennifer Sharpe's territory and she is a cookie selling machine!This year, Sharpe sold an incredible 17,328 boxes of everyone's favorite cookies and in doing so, likely broke a Girl Scout record. A spokesman for the organization says they don't actually know what the national record is for cookie sales, but agrees that Sharpe did an "amazing" job.
An accomplishment like that requires help, and Sharpe had plenty of it in her troop-leader and mother, Pam. The pair set up shop on a street corner and business boomed. "We were always there; we never closed," Pam Sharpe said. "At one point, Jenny got really sick, and we did shut down early, and we heard about it the next day."
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