January 29, 2008
Hot chocolate Confession Leads to Sweet Response for Maine Woman
JONESPORT, Pine Tree State When Elizabeth Emerson squealed to a paper that her only real self has existed an episodic chocolate bar during her 87 geezerhood, she wasn’t fain for the sweet reaction that postdated.
The 87-year-old Emerson was featured in a New York Times narration about the wallop of zooming fuel prices, bringing forth letters from crossways the res publica, some with parallel bars of hot chocolate inside.
She hit the pot in December with an mixed bag from Hershey Co. that was attended by a personal note.
“I couldn’t conceive it. I expressed mirth more than anything. All that fuss over little old me,” Emerson told the Bangor Daily News.
The tale about how the low-income elderly digest harsh Northeast winters afforded a snap of Emerson’s living: married for a century, grandmother and great grandmother to 52, former adjutant at a nearby breast feeding home, now struggling to dwell on a USD 683-a-month Social Security check.
The final line disclosed her secret: “My superlative vice is Hershey parallel bars.”
This weekend, Emerson displayed what stiff of her cocoa collection at her kitchen table.
“This isn’t even all of it. I’ve yielded boxes and boxes away,” she expressed. “I couldn’t relish it if I wasn’t capable to partake.”
Besides, she articulated, “I can only eat so much cocoa.”