<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568597" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Penny Candies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let's search for money! <br>Couch cushions...<br>laundry room...<br>junk drawers...<br>LOOK EVERYWHERE! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between the five of us kids<br>we found about 12 cents.<br>No food in the house.<br>Buy dinner with 12 cents? <br>We have to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aha! Penny Candy! <br>Yeah, we can buy 12 <br>and split them.<br>GENIUS! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back then the fruit flavored tootsie rolls<br>were only a penny (thank God) .<br>We bundled up, since it was wintertime<br>in Michigan<br>and walked to the candy store.<br>We didn't eat them until we were back home.<br>That way we could just sit and savor our meal.<br>That was the most delicious candy<br>I had ever tasted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I didn't chew them as they're meant to be eaten.<br>I just placed it in my mouth <br>and let it melt<br>as slowly as possible.<br>No talking...<br>I didn't want to waste a second of<br>this pleasure.<br>When SHE returns from the bar<br>she'll wonder (or maybe she won't) <br>if we ate.<br>I'm not telling her we ate candy for dinner.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">25 years later, I went to visit HER.<br>Trying to move on<br>forget the past (it's for the best) .<br>As soon as I walk into her house...<br>sitting on the dining room table<br>is a punchbowl filled <br>with fruit flavored tootsie rolls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I didn't mention our ''meal''<br>25 years earlier.<br>I wondered if she knew<br>and this was some cruel joke<br>to have such a huge bowl <br>filled with just the thing that would trigger<br>so many emotions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Nagy">Mary Nagy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568597" data-title="Penny Candies de Mary Nagy" data-description="Let's search for money! Couch cushions... laundry room... junk drawers... LOOK EVERYWHERE! Between the five of us kids we found about 12 cents. No food in the house. Buy dinner with 12 cents? We have to. Aha! Penny Candy! Yeah, we can buy 12..."></div> </div> </div>

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