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Back in the day, Baba Petra and her daughter She came back with beans. regularly helped out on the farm, so when she Baba (or “Grandma”) Petra, was a family returned from Bosnia, she gave Videnovich a friend of Vera Videnovich, whose Serbian fa- backup stash of black pole beans specific to ther left