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A thousand years ago, for reasons we will never know, the residents of a tiny farmstead on the coast of central Norway filled an old well with dirt. Maybe the water dried up, or maybe it became foul.

A mom and a Grade 1 teacher, she immediately said yes. Next they settled on a price. Huxley proposed $6 a bag. Burns talked him up to $10. “We talked about what it meant to write an invoice.