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Donating hundreds of forks to the dining hall

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A year and a half ago, the dining hall would run out of forks every evening. My roommates and I would inevitably have to eat with spoons.

Donating forks to the dining hall Donating forks to the dining hall May 29, 2024 A year and a half ago, the dining hall would run out of forks every evening. My roommates and I would inevitably have to eat with spoons. Finally, I decided to do something about it: I bought 180 forks. But I had to make sure that my altruism would be commemorated. So I bought metal letter stamps on Amazon, and my roommate and I stamped our initials onto the back of every fork: a “B” for Ben, or an “H” for Henry. Then, I had to quietly enter my forks into circulation. For months, I would bring packs of 12 forks to

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