Mrs. Virginia Ali attempted to bus my table, but I protested that I've been eating her halfsmokes at Ben's Chili Bowl for 51 years and instead got an update on her grand 90th birthday and 65th anniversary of Ben's Chli Bowl on Aug. 22 as the restaurant made famous by its celebrity guests and community fortitude closes off U Street.

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