Gerrie McCoy was tired of looking at the plain, gray propane tank at her house in Olive Branch, Illinois. She pondered what she could do with the tank, paint it like a Pepsi can as her mother-in-law, Willa Fern McCoy, is a Pepsi-holic. Or maybe a caterpillar with a backpack. But she decided to go with a watermelon with a piece poking out of the top.
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