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Letter to a Lover

2006/01/27
Text by Hellen Zhou
Photo Courtesy of Chocolate Information Center

Sweetheart,

I always believe that chocolate is a must Valentine's Day gift, though you thought it an outmoded idea. Let me explain why chocolate, plus roses and a candlelight dinner would perfect the day for my dearest lover.

Did you notice that I bought seven pieces of chocolate? Please have one piece every day, which will remind you of my love seven days a week. In addition, each chocolate will express a different feeling from the bottom of my heart.

The first chocolate means romance. As the chocolate melts between your sweet lips, my heart is melting for you. Please close your eyes and let your taste buds enjoy it; you will find it sweet, slightly tinged with bitterness, smooth and fragrant, just like our love.

The second chocolate is youth. In my heart, you are always my goddess of youth and beauty. Even as time goes by, your heart always remains young and gives me new feelings, which makes you beautiful forever and makes me love you more, just as there are always new types of chocolate that seduce me.

The third chocolate represents health. Please have a bar of chocolate less than 50 grams everyday, which can offer you 15 percent of the energy you need for a whole day. Adequate chocolate is no enemy to keeping in good shape, and it can be a helping hand in lowering blood cholesterol.

You can understand that chocolate can bring your energy, as my fourth wish, can't you? When you are doing your exercises, please have my fourth piece of chocolate, which can soon replenish your energy. I hope my love can have the same effect on you.

Why did I send you chocolate as gifts? Only because I care. The fifth chocolate packs all my care for you. Besides my care, you can also absorb nutritious calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and other healthy elements in the chocolate.

With my listing of the above reasons, I hope you feel happy; that is also my sixth gift of chocolate. I want to bring you joy and your smiling face is my best reward.

Can you guess what the last chocolate means? It is a four-letter word. I hope you can speak this word 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Do not forget to add an "I" before this word and a "you" after it.

Dear, our love is as sweet as chocolate; you are as beautiful as roses, and everyday we spend together is as happy and romantic as a candlelight dinner. Don't you think so?

 

Yours forever,

Johnny



 
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