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Julie Buchholz has returned to visit the cafe she owns -- Irene’s By Julie Café -- on Main Street in Hendricks, Minn. It wouldn't still be in business but for the volunteers who chipped in when she, her mother, and a friend were hurt in an accident on Interstate 29 in Watertown, S.D., last August. She's been in the hospital and a rehab facility ever since.

“Some night we're just going to have a meal in here and just have everybody come in and just say, 'This is on us for the things you've done for us,'" Mike, her husband, tells

A waitress who served more than just food

 writer, found a deer carcass in the "usual place," he reports -- by the side of Vermilion Road. Deer carcasses have been tossed there for years.

Oh, let he who hasn't thrown money in the Mall of America in a desperate attempt to get a wife back cast the first stone.

The famously humorless Mall of America guards tossed Serge Vorobyov, had him ticketed, and banned him from the mall for a year.

"She took the cat," he explained in another YouTube post.

Meanwhile, the mysterious person who drops the occasional grand into the Salvation Army kettle 

 The person has given $45,000 over the last few years.

Salvation Army takes down 'ex-gay' links, offers apology

About a dozen years ago a man stumbled into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Milwaukee. After listening to the stories, a collection was held. The man reached into his pocket and pulled out what was apparently the last thing of value he had in his life -- $1. He put it in the plate. Then he slumped over and died.

He had no identification, so he was buried in an unmarked grave, the 

 The obituary section of the paper is filled with code words and phrases, to mask a true cause of death. In yesterday's Star Tribune, the family of Craig Gerhard Swenson of Richmond, Wis., 

 did not shy from the affliction from which he suffered.

NPR's Planet Money held a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year to raise money to tell the story of the shirt you may have purchased recently that was made somewhere else. Behind the shirt, there's a different world. Though some may not want to know about the people behind the shirt, Planet Money has put together 

 This actually is from a few months ago and my apologies if you've already seen it. Reader Brian Hanf passed it along and it strikes me as a pretty darned fine way to start off a week. Be sure to watch the entire thing.

 The Supreme Court tomorrow will hear the case of a Minneapolis man who says Northwest Airlines wrongly stripped him of frequent flier miles. Northwest claimed he was a "frequent complainer," 

, so it must be true. Amazon wants to use drones to deliver things.

We're guessing the story isn't true, because, you know, it 

(9-12 p.m.) - First hour: Teens and mental health.

Third hour: The next generation of civic and philanthropic leadership in Minnesota.

 (12-1 pm) - Does Domestic Spying Keep Us Safe? An Intelligence Squared debate.

 (3-6:30 p.m.) - Just since March, a single company has amassed about 700 single-family homes in the Twin Cities area with the intention of renting them out. The company, Invitation Homes, has also been snapping up properties in 13 other housing markets around the country. Its mission: to be the nation's largest landlord of single family residences. Experts say the firm's wide-scale acquisition of largely distressed properties has helped to stabilize the housing market. But lots of questions remain about Invitation Homes' performance as a megalandlord. MPR's Annie Baxter will have the story.

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After an accident, a cafe owner returns; who's throwing away deer carcasses in Duluth, joy to the world of the dollar,  the alcoholic people didn't know,  and Planet Money makes a T-shirt.

People who’ve got your back, deer carcasses by the side of the road, and the mall’s money man (5×8-12/2/13)

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