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The first food distribution run by the Capital Area Food Bank specifically for furloughed federal workers and contractors was supposed to help provide groceries for about 150 households — providing them dry goods, a half gallon of milk, some fruit and some proteins.

But by noon on Tuesday, the line stretched not just around the corner and down the block, but around the next corner too.

It wasn’t long before food for another 250 people was rushed in; and e

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