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I EAT for a living!

As I wiped down tables, a customer called me over.

‘This is too cold,’ he barked, shoving his plate across the table.

A mum of four young kids, I worked paycheck to paycheck at my job as a bartender in a restaurant.

Between mine and my husband’s jobs, we juggled looking after the kids.

The hours were long, but it was an income.

In July 2012, my co-worker mentioned a hamburger-eating challenge at an eatery down the road. If you ate

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