ARE YOU A CARROT, an EGG or COFFEE?

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	ARE YOU A CARROT, an EGG or COFFEE?

milktaster

9-1-2007 3:13 AM

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9-1-2007 6:13 AM

egoldstein

I highly recommend clicking through to the source to read the rest. It's well worth it!!

9-1-2007 6:55 AM

mona

i think i am an egg, aspiring to turn into coffee.

9-2-2007 2:39 PM

skwirlinator

Just goes to show you that when life grinds you up nothing can change ya. But you steep all over the place

9-2-2007 3:09 PM

Satchamo

Great story!--surely khau_khan that posted it to the blog on the site didn't write that or maybe they did--in which case I wish I was able to communicate like that.

9-2-2007 3:32 PM

manda243

I would like to think that I'm the coffee, but unfortunately sometimes, I'm like bitter, over-brewed coffee....ouch

9-2-2007 5:13 PM

dfiskey

great post...def worth reading the whole thing... cerainly makes you aspire to be coffee..

9-11-2007 11:11 AM

Rasmus

Methinks I am a woollen pullover, irreparably shrinking when laundered too hot.
Sorry.

9-12-2007 3:59 PM

dorine

Timely....thanks.

10-12-2007 8:59 PM

merrie

This parable is eloquent in its simplicity

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