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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 25, 2014 12:35 PM UTC  Girl Scout Katie Francis pulls her wagon full of boxes of cookies in the snow through a neighborhood in Warr Acres selling cookies in Oklahoma City, Feb. 6, 2014. Girl Scout Katie Francis pulls her wagon full of boxes of cookies in the snow through a neighborhood in Warr Acres selling cookies in Oklahoma City, Feb. 6, 2014. Doug Hoke—AP by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 25, 2014 12:35 PM UTC An Oklahoma City sixth grader crumbled all previously held records by selling a whopping 18,107 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Last year, Katie Francis sold a paltry 12,428 boxes. Thankfully she turned things around this year. In the seven-week sales period, which ended Sunday, Katie took the strategy of [“asking everyone she met to buy,” the AP reports.](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/24/oklahoma-girl-sells-more-than-18000-boxes-girl-scout-cookies-breaking-group/) Come rain or shine or sleet or snow. And according to a [local Oklahoma City television news outlet,](http://www.koco.com/news/oklahoma-city-girl-scout-breaks-national-cookie-record/25128758) she wants to make it to 20,000 by the end of the month. Katie’s lifetime goal is 100,000 boxes of cookies. 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