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Article: How one woman became passionate about tomatoes.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 7, 2001
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MINNEAPOLIS _ Tomatoes make Miranda Gallagher happy.
They're big, they're red, they're juicy. In fact, tomatoes are America's favorite garden crop: About 80 to 90 percent of American gardeners grow tomatoes. But those reasons aren't really why the 23-year-old Minneapolis woman loves tomatoes.
Tomatoes helped this college student through a tough time.
In May 1999, Gallagher was preparing for finals at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, where she was studying accounting. But she began experiencing difficulty reading _ the pages of her textbooks resembled an out-of-focus snapshot. When she looked up, she saw blackness. Doctors determined ...
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