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It's the Great Pumpkin!

By Brien McElhatten
June 18, 2010 Updated Sep 24, 2008 at 9:38 PM EST

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter)-It's back! Hilger's Farm is once again home to one large pumpkin.

Actually, its made of straw, 4,500 bales to be exact-and it will make its public debut on Saturday.

A feat two weeks in the making, it's the second try at building such a monstrosity-the pumpkin was set ablaze last year by arsonists.

This year, though John Hilger says he has security guarding the massive gourd.

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