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Things I Purchased This Week to Unsuccessfully Mollify the Pain of Life

Things I Purchased This Week to Unsuccessfully Mollify the Pain of Life

Some of these almost worked!

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Bess Kalb
Feb 06, 2023
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Fiat Hazelnut Chocolates

They were by the cash register at an Italian cafe in my neighborhood that is always empty and possibly a front. I spent $6 on them due to needing one small drip of serotonin after a particularly fraught preschool dropoff. They taste like a Nutella Cadbury cream egg, which is to say: Perfect. And they are very small so they are healthy. I now believe every car company should make non-FDA-approved chocolates that list no ingredients.

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