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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26110558, member: 10461&quot;]Ooh boy.</p><p><br /></p><p>In early 1980, right around the time the Easter candy started coming out, my grandmother died.&nbsp; At her funeral, I had on the atrocious brown houndstooth-plaid jacket the grownups made me wear.&nbsp; (Hey, the &#039;70s had just ended.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And I was eating a Cadbury Creme Egg.</p><p><br /></p><p>But even as a kid, I found those a little too sweet to handle all in one go.&nbsp; So I wrapped the egg (with one bite taken out of it) back in its foil wrapper and stuck it back into the pocket of my hideous coat.&nbsp; Which ended up back in the closet when I got home.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I only wore the coat to &quot;dressy&quot; occasions, when forced to, it didn&#039;t often come out of the closet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nine or ten months later, there was a wedding or something, and I was forced to wear the coat again.&nbsp; Reaching into my pocket, I rediscovered the partially-eaten Cadbury egg from months before.&nbsp; It was all mummified, like a relic from King Tut&#039;s tomb.&nbsp; The sugar &quot;yolk&quot; of the chocolate egg (which had looked nasty enough when fresh) had sort of solidified, crystallized and mostly crumbled away.</p><p><br /></p><p>My bratty kid sister ([USER=83990]@Elizabeth Shamblin[/USER]) double-<i>dog</i> dared me to eat that ancient Cadbury egg.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I did.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And look, I survived to tell the tale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for giving me the opportunity to derail my own thread with some completely irrelevant ramblings.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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