A Particular Friendship
Viewing comments for Chapter 34 "Pre diet Years"We meet Lizzy who has just come out of the convent
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Comment from Brett Matthew West
The availability of candy at recess a huge draw for students.
"Being on a diet quickly fizzled out." Isn't that the typical end result of most dieting attempts?
Instead of feasting on a molasses sandwich perhaps you learned better for the next go around?
Pillowcases and Halloween just somehow seem to go together fairly well.
"Comparing and trading our stash" was part of the fun of Trick-or-Treating when begging door-to-door ended.
reply by the author on 20-Mar-2024
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The availability of candy at recess a huge draw for students.
"Being on a diet quickly fizzled out." Isn't that the typical end result of most dieting attempts?
Instead of feasting on a molasses sandwich perhaps you learned better for the next go around?
Pillowcases and Halloween just somehow seem to go together fairly well.
"Comparing and trading our stash" was part of the fun of Trick-or-Treating when begging door-to-door ended.
Comment Written 20-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 20-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your delightful review
Comment from Mustang Patty
LOL...
yes, that first venture into the region of the molasses world can kill a kid!!
My poor Mom would flip if she knew how much sugar I started consuming a few years back - but now, since gastric bypass, I cannot tolerate sugar at all!!
And yes, we did use pillowcases on Halloween, and then I hid mine under the bed to sample from over the next few months,
Thank you for sharing,
~Mustang~
reply by the author on 20-Mar-2024
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LOL...
yes, that first venture into the region of the molasses world can kill a kid!!
My poor Mom would flip if she knew how much sugar I started consuming a few years back - but now, since gastric bypass, I cannot tolerate sugar at all!!
And yes, we did use pillowcases on Halloween, and then I hid mine under the bed to sample from over the next few months,
Thank you for sharing,
~Mustang~
Comment Written 20-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 20-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your delightful review I feel badly that you had to have gastric bypass but if that's what was necessary then as long as your healthy.
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
Kids do love a spot of sugar and they reckon sugar is responsible for not just weight gain but also an unhealthy population. But when it's Halloween, we expect to be collection those sweet treats. An endearing story Liz, love Dolly x
reply by the author on 20-Mar-2024
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Kids do love a spot of sugar and they reckon sugar is responsible for not just weight gain but also an unhealthy population. But when it's Halloween, we expect to be collection those sweet treats. An endearing story Liz, love Dolly x
Comment Written 20-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 20-Mar-2024
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Thank you so much for your delightful review
Comment from BethShelby
I thought my sweet tooth was bad and your's might be worse. I didn't get to go trick or treating my my kides did. Halloween was a favorite. Once the good candy was gone most of what remained with melt togerther and eventually have to be thrown out. I enjoyed your story.
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2024
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I thought my sweet tooth was bad and your's might be worse. I didn't get to go trick or treating my my kides did. Halloween was a favorite. Once the good candy was gone most of what remained with melt togerther and eventually have to be thrown out. I enjoyed your story.
Comment Written 17-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2024
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I'm enjoying your reviews Beth I feel like we have so much in common. The next chapter has a little bit about when I actually went white sugar free for a while. I'd say my mother brought us up on sugar and the fact that I had a a whole pan of cake waiting for me when I got home from school. I think that began to develop the sugar habit. My mother used sugar to numb herself I think.
Comment from Marilyn Hamilton
Oh I can't wait for the Girl Scout Cookies sage. lol Very cleverly written and humorous with a dash of nostalgia. It was easy for me to relate to much of this. I never tried molasses but have an engrained memory of taking a big spoonful of cocoa powder! I'm sure if this is a mistake or you meant to write this twice but I questioned this section toward the beginning.
Just as with our other school, candy was for sale at recess.
Well done. Thanks for sharing.
Just as with our other school, this van had candy for sale at recess.
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2024
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Oh I can't wait for the Girl Scout Cookies sage. lol Very cleverly written and humorous with a dash of nostalgia. It was easy for me to relate to much of this. I never tried molasses but have an engrained memory of taking a big spoonful of cocoa powder! I'm sure if this is a mistake or you meant to write this twice but I questioned this section toward the beginning.
Just as with our other school, candy was for sale at recess.
Well done. Thanks for sharing.
Just as with our other school, this van had candy for sale at recess.
Comment Written 16-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your involved alert review. I'm not sure if I invited you before. You are welcome to go to my portfolio and read any of the previous chapters with no need to write a review, just enjoy.
Comment from Karen Cherry Threadgill
I think we did at one time. As we got older we use the heavy brown sacks from the grocery store. We were also hobo's and ghosts. The easy things for hurried Mom's with multiple children. Good writing. karen
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2024
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I think we did at one time. As we got older we use the heavy brown sacks from the grocery store. We were also hobo's and ghosts. The easy things for hurried Mom's with multiple children. Good writing. karen
Comment Written 16-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your involved review. It is fun to hear what other people have done too for Halloween.
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I was inventive for my lids. No store bought. One day when I go through the photo books, I can send you some hilarious shots of when Wally was a
bat, spiderman, an accountant, a cowboy of course, a clown. :-) Karen
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I'd love that
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I'd love that
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Comment from LateBloomer
Hi Liz, thank you for taking us down memory Lane. Like I've said in the past, growing up in NYC is so different. On Halloween, we did trick or treating on our street of apartment buildings with so many families. We knew everyone whose door that we knocked. Some gave us candy, and like you, the bars were large, full-sized--not the popular snack-sized candy of today--but most, gave us money, and dollar bills. The best part of Halloween was that we were off from school the very next day for All Saints Day with all of that money in our pocket, and All Saints Day was always the beginning of our church Bazaar and Carnivale that had games of chance, ring toss, grab bags, food, snacks, etc. So, most of our Halloween money was happily spent there, trying to win a treasure. We didn't get as much candy, but whatever we got it was gone in a couple of days.
However, my children did trick or treating with pillowcases. They would go out after school and then in the evening for a total of two full pillowcases. When they came home for dinner, they would take remove the candy that they didn't like and put it in our extra-large pumpkin for the trick or treaters that would come to our door, kind of a sneaky trick.
After dinner, they went back out for round two. At the end of the night, they had candy snacks for months, and I ate what they didn't like, e.g. Mary Janes, etc.
The idea of putting a child on a diet if not a very feasible one. I'm sorry that the molasses sandwich didn't work out. By now, you probably laugh at the memory. When we were raising our children, one day, while I was at work, my kids wanted a snack, and the house really didn't have any snacks on hand. So my husband, spread peanut butter on a piece of bread and sprinkled it with colorful sprinkles. The kids loved it, and every since that day, there were times that they would ask for a peanut butter and sprinkles snack. My grandkids eat it too. Lol. It has become a family tradition.
Of special note:
It seems there was an unexpected unsupervised power outage. Need I say more?
(Lol. I'm shocked that more than candy pieces didn't go missing.)
Also:
One of the Sisters, wanting to make sure her one piece was a good one, used to punch a little hole in the bottom of each of the chocolates.
(In today's "germophobia" world, that would be so taboo.)
And:
So much for blind obedience
(Lol. "To err is human" The confessional box must have been busy that week.)
Also:
She must have had her eye on the box all along, because when there was need for a gift for someone, she suggested that box of candy.
(Crafty, Big-teeth smile.)
Finally:
Girl Scout cookies will be part of our next adventures to read.
(Girl Scout cookies are now smaller and $7 a box. My cravings have been cured, but my daughter still buys them from the local scouts.)
Your poem was filled with vivid imagery, and I could relate to your poem, especially ...
We were always bums
(Liz, years ago, Halloween didn't costs the parents a day/week's pay. Kids went through the house and made up their own customs. Being a "bum" was definitely a popular one in my Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. We were used to seeing them. Many of the kids would carry around an empty pint-sized whiskey bottle that was filled with water, and some would add a long stick with a colorful handkerchief tied at the end as an extra prop.)
A fun story and a great poem, and I'm looking forward to hearing about the Girl Scout's cookies. I hope you "arm-wrestled" that other Sister for your cookies. Big-teeth smile, and laughing here.
Well done; well told. Margaret
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2024
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Hi Liz, thank you for taking us down memory Lane. Like I've said in the past, growing up in NYC is so different. On Halloween, we did trick or treating on our street of apartment buildings with so many families. We knew everyone whose door that we knocked. Some gave us candy, and like you, the bars were large, full-sized--not the popular snack-sized candy of today--but most, gave us money, and dollar bills. The best part of Halloween was that we were off from school the very next day for All Saints Day with all of that money in our pocket, and All Saints Day was always the beginning of our church Bazaar and Carnivale that had games of chance, ring toss, grab bags, food, snacks, etc. So, most of our Halloween money was happily spent there, trying to win a treasure. We didn't get as much candy, but whatever we got it was gone in a couple of days.
However, my children did trick or treating with pillowcases. They would go out after school and then in the evening for a total of two full pillowcases. When they came home for dinner, they would take remove the candy that they didn't like and put it in our extra-large pumpkin for the trick or treaters that would come to our door, kind of a sneaky trick.
After dinner, they went back out for round two. At the end of the night, they had candy snacks for months, and I ate what they didn't like, e.g. Mary Janes, etc.
The idea of putting a child on a diet if not a very feasible one. I'm sorry that the molasses sandwich didn't work out. By now, you probably laugh at the memory. When we were raising our children, one day, while I was at work, my kids wanted a snack, and the house really didn't have any snacks on hand. So my husband, spread peanut butter on a piece of bread and sprinkled it with colorful sprinkles. The kids loved it, and every since that day, there were times that they would ask for a peanut butter and sprinkles snack. My grandkids eat it too. Lol. It has become a family tradition.
Of special note:
It seems there was an unexpected unsupervised power outage. Need I say more?
(Lol. I'm shocked that more than candy pieces didn't go missing.)
Also:
One of the Sisters, wanting to make sure her one piece was a good one, used to punch a little hole in the bottom of each of the chocolates.
(In today's "germophobia" world, that would be so taboo.)
And:
So much for blind obedience
(Lol. "To err is human" The confessional box must have been busy that week.)
Also:
She must have had her eye on the box all along, because when there was need for a gift for someone, she suggested that box of candy.
(Crafty, Big-teeth smile.)
Finally:
Girl Scout cookies will be part of our next adventures to read.
(Girl Scout cookies are now smaller and $7 a box. My cravings have been cured, but my daughter still buys them from the local scouts.)
Your poem was filled with vivid imagery, and I could relate to your poem, especially ...
We were always bums
(Liz, years ago, Halloween didn't costs the parents a day/week's pay. Kids went through the house and made up their own customs. Being a "bum" was definitely a popular one in my Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. We were used to seeing them. Many of the kids would carry around an empty pint-sized whiskey bottle that was filled with water, and some would add a long stick with a colorful handkerchief tied at the end as an extra prop.)
A fun story and a great poem, and I'm looking forward to hearing about the Girl Scout's cookies. I hope you "arm-wrestled" that other Sister for your cookies. Big-teeth smile, and laughing here.
Well done; well told. Margaret
Comment Written 15-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your delightful review. Wow, the Halloween was perfectly times for the bazaar the next day How cool. Margaret, I just laughed my whole way through your comments. Thank you, I needed that laugh. This is good fodder for you writing some stories too or chapters. I give your review and A+
Comment from jim vecchio
I will be looking forward to the next installment! This made me "candy hungry" and I've got q whole bunch saved up because my daughter is visiting tomorrow! One very small concern: I believe "dirth" should be "dearth". I messed up once with tht word and was accused of not writing a story I labored on.
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2024
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I will be looking forward to the next installment! This made me "candy hungry" and I've got q whole bunch saved up because my daughter is visiting tomorrow! One very small concern: I believe "dirth" should be "dearth". I messed up once with tht word and was accused of not writing a story I labored on.
Comment Written 15-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your insightful an amusing review you are correct I spelled Dearth wrong.
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I still remember getting accused of not writing a great paper because of the use of that word. I'll never forget it!
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bwaaa.... One thing that someone pointed out to me was that I used that a lot and that made sense to me I think when I'm writing that I sometimes write like I talk I probably use that a million times in a day thought you would enjoy that. Oooof!
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Hope you enjoy a dearth of a life with dirth!
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ha ha ha that could be our hope
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My daughter's visiting today. Hope my carpet is cleaned up from the dirth, I men dirt!
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There will be no dirth of thoughts of dirth in the dirt of our day to day wirth.
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Decaying dirth disappears
Duplicating dirth desecrates
Developing dirth decays
Denying dirth disparages
I don't know what this mens!
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Great alliteration Now am I challenged
"Doesn't dis destroy dirth diets? Decked delicacies down da digestive drizzling doorway."
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Sincerely surrender! Sending special superlatives, several such signed stories, so significant, satisfying, splendiferous!
Comment from barbara.wilkey
I have never heard of a candy truck or anything similar being allowed to park at a school. I happen to like molasses. Although I wouldn't eat a spoonful at one time. LOL I enjoyed reading the poem and the entire post.
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2024
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I have never heard of a candy truck or anything similar being allowed to park at a school. I happen to like molasses. Although I wouldn't eat a spoonful at one time. LOL I enjoyed reading the poem and the entire post.
Comment Written 15-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your delightful amusing review Yeah I couldn't imagine a candy truck coming on a school grounds but it was out in the middle of nowhere not really around any large towns in the 50's .that's funny Thank you
Comment from lyenochka
Well, Girl Scout cookies may have a bit more nutrition than candy, anyway. Thanks for sharing and I'm curious about the molasses sandwich. I guess you didn't finish it.
Question:
The first paragraph has a lot of repeated sentences - is this intentional?
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reply by the author on 15-Mar-2024
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Well, Girl Scout cookies may have a bit more nutrition than candy, anyway. Thanks for sharing and I'm curious about the molasses sandwich. I guess you didn't finish it.
Question:
The first paragraph has a lot of repeated sentences - is this intentional?
This rating does not count towards story rating or author rank.
The highest and the lowest rating are not included in calculations.
Comment Written 15-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your alert review No there must be something seriously wrong with it I will have to edit some of this.
My next dramatic response in between raspberry sounds and motions to clear my lips and tongue of any speck, ranted with the questions of why would anyone put that putrid sweet, dark substance in a jar? And what was it doing in our jelly pantry?
Mother gently said, with a slight grin reaching her eyes, "Are you okay? I told you you would not like it. But you do have to do things on your own to discover the truth. This was not a very sweet truth was it?"
