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Once in our travels when I was a little girl of about eight, I think, when my daddy, Tom, was a surgeon on the Hope Hospital ship, we were living in Tunisia.

And I remember very vividly that I was so upset with my

mom because she said I had to finish my dinner before I had dessert, which made no sense at all.

And there was another couple there who were working with my dad. And the woman in the couple said, well, how about I take you out for lunch, just you and me,

and then you can have dessert first.

And so that was very appealing, as you can imagine.

And I did.

We went to lunch, and I ordered a huge hot fudge Sunday, I mean, just huge,

and I just gobbled that fucker up. And then when it was time to actually order lunch,

well, I couldn't really order lunch because I was too full. But I assure you of one thing,

I did not learn a lesson that day. I've always been a true and deep

lover of sweets and desserts. In fact, one of my earliest memories is of these peanut butter cookies

that my grandma Didi made for me, you know, the kind that have the fork imprint on them.

I still have her handwritten index card with the cookie recipe.

Well, actually, I think I have it.

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