The last Chocolate chip cookie? (OT)

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An elderly man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of

impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite chocolate

chip cookies wafting up the stairs.

 

He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed.

Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and

with even greater effort, gripping the railing with both hands, he crawled

downstairs.

 

With labored breath, he leaned against the doorframe, gazing into the

kitchen. Were it not for death's agony, he would have thought himself

already in heaven, for there, spread out upon waxed paper on the kitchen

table were literally hundreds of his favorite chocolate chip cookies. Was it

heaven?

 

Or was it one final act of heroic love from his devoted wife of

sixty years, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man? Mustering one

great final effort, he threw himself towards the table, landing on his knees

in a rumpled posture.

 

His parched lips parted, the wondrous taste of the cookie was already in

his mouth, seemingly bringing him back to life. The aged and withered hand

trembled on its way to a cookie at the edge of the table, when it was

suddenly smacked with a spatula by his wife......

 

" Back off! " she said, " They're for the funeral. "

 

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