One woman dominated the awards at a Virginia county fair

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Deep in southwest Virginia, there's a county fair where, last month, one woman won first, second and third place for best cookies.

She also swept all three awards for candy and for savory bread.

In fact, she won the blue ribbon for cake, pie, brownie, sweet bread and best overall baked good (that was strawberry fudge.)

It didn't stop there.

She also won for canned tomatoes, canned corn, pickled peppers, sauerkraut, relish, spaghetti sauce and both jelly and jam. Then she took top honors in quilt embroidery. And after the Virginia Kentucky District Fair posted these utterly dominating results to Facebook in June, you guessed it — she went viral.

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Linda Skeens shared that she was diagnosed with leukemia in December, but that the treatment she's on is working and that cooking for her friends and family helps. She was flattered by the comparisons to the all-time great athletes, like NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.

"Comparing me to Dale Earnhardt, Sr., I said no way I could ever be in his category. He's my hero," she told HOT 93.3.

Perhaps Skeens was being too humble. After all, she admitted that last year at a different county fair, she won 40 ribbons.

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