Your 25 scripts:

my %config = do "config.pl"    
    or die("can't recreate config file: $! $@");
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config.pl:

do "martha.225"
    or die("can't recreate config file: $! $@");
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— OR —

Your 25 scripts:

use AppConfig;
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AppConfig.pm:

package AppConfig;
our @ISA = 'Exporter';

use Exporter;
our @EXPORT = '%config';

our %config = do "martha.225"    
    or die("can't recreate config file: $! $@");

1;
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Update: $reply_text =~ s/@EXPORT_OK/@EXPORT/g;