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Milk Chocolate Day

July 28
Milk Chocolate Day

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Thunk

Danny drops a bag of cocoa powder onto the kitchen counter.

Okay, we shall try again.

Carolina looks up from her laptop.

Hm?

Today, we will make milk chocolate.

Milk chocolate?

Yes.

We?

Yes.

Absolutely not!

And why not?

Did you see the eggs?!

Um, yes.

I failed at hard-boiled eggs and you think I can make chocolate?

As the great Thomas Edison once said, "I have not failed. I just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Hang Edison.

He takes out his phone and is silent for a minute.

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

Wh—

"The three greatest essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

That's—

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

I'm—

"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."

St—

So! Let's get to work, shall we?

Omigoodness.

I already bought everything—

Yay.

—but you'll have to pay for it.

He stuffs the receipt into her fist and turns away.

You know what? Fine. I'll make it if – and only if – you promise to leave me alone after this.

I promise.

So... What do I do?

Actually, I've never made chocolate before—