Hot Dog Mailed Between Sisters for 54 Years

[Ally]

(Keenesburg, Co.) - Flora Zimbelman says it all started 54 years ago when she put an uncooked hot dog in her sister?s suitcase.

"I don?t know what made me do it. The devil I guess," she said.

Flora?s sister, Rose, found the hot dog when she opened the suitcase back up in Idaho, where she lived at the time.

"She mailed it back to me telling me to keep my garbage at home," said Flora.

The game was on.

In the years that followed, Flora would find a way to sneak the hot dog back into Rose's life. And Rose would find another way to sneak it back to Flora.

"I found it under my pillow once, I found it in between the drapes and once I found it in the kitchen drawer," said Flora.

Flora still has that hot dog. It looks just about as disgusting as you might expect.

Yet, earlier this year, Flora's sister, best friend, and victim of her continuous pranks, lost her battle with cancer.

Flora says she misses her friend, and even though it?s difficult to look at, she?ll still show you the hot dog and tell you the story behind it.


Flora and Rose


The hot dog in question and one of the letters.


A close up shot of the hot dog.


Another view of the popular tube meat.


Flora Zimbelman

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[eefanincan]

Um, how touching?

[maycm]

She could have had the last laugh and buried it with her sister

[Ally]

[IRiSHMaFIA]

I think that's pretty funny actually. I did the same thing with my flatmate for the longest time but it was with a winegum.

I offered her one and it landed on the floor so she refused it. When she turned her back I stuck it in her jacket pocket and she was off away. Round a week later to my surprise, the same winegum was in my jacket pocket so it was game on. We passed that bugger back and forth for months till finally she tossed it in the bin because it had all this lint and such embedded into it.

I think she should bury the hotdog at her sisters grave stone just for ole time sake.

Wouldn't that be odd if she did then woke up with it on her bedside table? booooooooooo

[Skylace]

Ewwww!

[AHend09]

She should have buried it with her sister, touching story though,

[girldorksrule]

Eew to the hot dog, but it is quite a sweet story.