Chapter 2 · 1300 words
The Patent That Wasn't Theirs
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Grandmother Vandermill had filed the puffing process under her maiden name in 1961, which was the single piece of paperwork the family had never bothered to read.🥣🔥 151
Josephine had read it. She had read it in a rented room above a laundromat, by a lamp she paid for with tips.
"You own the noise," her lawyer said, disbelieving. "The snap. The crackle. Legally, they can't sell a cereal that makes a sound without you."
— End of chapter 2 —
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