JAWBREAKERS

FIRST ONES IN SEVENTY YEARS!
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JAWBREAKERS....Ummm....
    It's been a long time!

A gift from an old Clovis 
   friend...one that I once 
saw buying those at that
    little candy store, 
across Thornton Street
    from La Casita
School!

La Casita friends...maybe
    the oldest and best 
of them all! They go back...
    a long way.

That "candy store" was really
    just a residence with 
a living room with glass
   counters, turned into a
candy store for little kids.

Many of us, tho' with no money,
    went over there every day
at 12:50 pm to watch the 
    the kids buy---penny and 
nickel candies...

Suckers, Black Cows, Hersheys,
    Baby Ruths, Butterfingers, 
Walnettos, "plumgranites,"
    at ten cents....and of 
course---

"JAWBREAKERS!"

Kids had to eat fast, school began
    again at one pm.

A package came today, filled with
    all manner of nice candies,
made in Clovis at the Leslie Candy Co.

Oh, how heart-warming, oh what 
    memories go back to those early 
times and childhood friends, so
    cherished now!

And eventually CHS '51 fellow grads!

Now, I'm getting ready to eat my first
    jawbreaker in seventy years...

I'm a little frightened...

Do I chew them...or what?!

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BY MIL
10/20/14