A Chocoholic-gift For A Chocoholic

A Chocoholic-gift is too good for most. When youcontroland fumbled and dropped my friend to the floor.
smell it, youwant it. When you taste it you want moreAfter picking up my friend she did another replay with
of it. My friendcoined a phrase.thepinky finger except she put that brown stuff right
"I like it, I love it. And I want some more of it." Iinto mymouth.
wouldn'thave ever imagined in my wildest dreams thatOnly the best sensation I ever tasted. I know why my
I am addicted tochocolate; I don't smoke, drink alcoholmomsaid mmm'mm. That was my first word and since
and I don't reallyhave any negative vices that I knowthat time, Iwould not drink milk unless it was chocolate.
of.To make a long story short, two years latter, I grew a
I looked into my past to find the truth of the matter,lotof teeth. Every week my pop would give us an
and itis absolutely true, no two ways about it. Myallowance. Theidea was to save the money.
mother tells methat when I was three, she wouldOf course, I have other ideas for my allowances. You
always hold me on her hipwhen she was cooking orguessed it,chocolate. When I go to the corner store
she would put me in a highchair (notfun, not fun at all).and get to theregister, there are all kinds of chocolate
Although, when I am in the chair she either gives me ato choose from.
toy orsomething to eat (the good part). I can almostChocolate, mint marble, dark chocolate some with
remember thefirst time watching her bake a chocolatenuts(scrumptious), filled with caramel, milk chocolate
cake.center rapped with dark chocolate mmm'mm. This
I found out years later that she was a baker (or aplace is chocolateheaven.
bakeret).Any way, I watched her every move, she gotI only recently learned that there are two types of
some eggs, flower,sugar, vanilla and this littlechocolateice cream. One is used for ice cream cones
contraption to blend theingredients.and the other isused for floats and malts.
After that she puts the batter into pans and puts themThe soda jerk gave me a comparison test and the ice
intothe oven. Another good part starts. She gives mecream thatis used for malts is the creamiest. When I
thespoon and bowl that had the batter in, and I went towas like eight ornine, I made a promise to myself that
town.when I get grown, I'mgoing to buy a box of three
A few minutes latter she cleaned me up. All the time Imusketeers and eat each and everyone of them by
amsmelling something that smells like daddy before hemy self.
leavesto go to work.That promise still stands to this day. I have eaten a
It smells like something that I should eat. She puts mebox of them but I haven't eaten all bar from the same
backinto the highchair (and I'm bewildered as to what isbox. I am lookingforward to that day.
thatsmell is?).That reflection into my past confirms my suspicions.
Craning to see what she is doing with the stove, sheThatChocoholic-gift didn't just walk away, I ate it. That
pullsthe oven door to reveal the layers of the cake.Chocoholic-gift really had no chance.
She then putseach of them one on top of the other.Any Chocoholic-gifts in my house are mine. I confess,
Then she went to the refrigerator and produces mymy name isChris and I am indeed a chocoholic and
favoriteplaymate, a bottle. Watching her every moveproud of it.
she gets thatcontraption again and mixed theseChris & Ted Morgan always say that success
ingredients, some milk and some brown flower.seems to be connected with action; successful people
She then puts her pinky finger into the bowl and intokeep moving; they make mistakes, but they don't quit.
hermouth while saying mmm'mm. At that point, I lost allWant more traffic??