Today's OneWord: Charity

"You gave how much to charity?!"

"Half my earnings," I repeated to my flabbergasted uncle. "And don't look so shellshocked, Uncle Brad. They need it more than I do."

"Which charity?" my uncle demanded to know, pointing a skeletal finger at me. "I should at least get the honor of knowing that!"

"Charlie's Foundation," I replied with an excessive tone of politeness. "Pancreatic cancer research. You know, the stuff my mom died of. Now please lift your jaw off my floor - I just had it swept."

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