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- The Candy Parenthesis
- I don’t like candy. by Robin Sloan

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- All For Me
- When I was five, my grandfather kept a stash of 3 Musketeers bars on top of his fridge. Not just a handful, but an actual display box like the ones in the check-out aisle at the grocery. by Erin Kissane

- 15 Comments
- Sugar/Smack
- I’m one of those people who really don’t have many childhood memories to speak of. The years just blur together, bound by images, places, feelings. But the memories I do have—the clear ones—are about candy. by Kristina Halvorson

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- Pixy Stix
- Our house edged a woods. We said the lady who lived there was a witch by Jeffrey Zeldman

- 19 Comments
- Love Sick
- I dreamt of you again last night… By Jessi Arrington

- 30 Comments
- Retrick/Retreat
- If you wish to see a maniacally enraged, completely unhinged seven-year-old, ask him to dress up, promise him candy, have him come to your door step, and then give him school supplies. By Frank Chimero

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- To Sweet Hereafter
- To Sweet Hereafter, a poem By Jim Coudal

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- Botan Rice Candy
- There’s a communal dimension to the candy that you eat as a kid. By Khoi Vinh

- 30 Comments
- In Sugar We Trust
- When I was growing up, holidays offered early indications that communication design was in my future. By Rob Weychert

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- Mathematics of the Tootsie Pop
- Nothing was more contested in our neighborhood than how many licks it took to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. By Liz Danzico

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- Brain Food
- No, there will be no crying over spilt Nerds here. My choice, instead, is the thinking man’s candy, the brain food packed in an orderly tube of tablets known in the U.S. as Smarties. By Rob Giampietro

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- Jackpot
- In the small town neighborhood where I grew up, the Stenavage family’s house stood above all others each Halloween. By John Gruber

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- All Things Nice
- I remember the candy cigarettes most fondly, not because they tasted better, but because they were grown-up. By Mandy Brown

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