Fat Albert
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt" /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">A very old man lay dying in his bed. Through the doorway, he suddenly smelled</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">the aroma of his favorite chocolate chip cookie wafting up the stairs. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">He gathered his remaining strength and lifted himself from the bed. Leaning</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and with even</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">greater effort forced himself down the stairs, gripping the railing with</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">both hands. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">With labored breath, he leaned against the door frame, gazing into the</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">kitchen. Were it not for death's agony, he would have thought himself</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">already in heaven. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">There, spread out up on newspapers (newspapers?)on the kitchen table were literally</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">hundreds of his favorite chocolate chip cookies. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of heroic love from his devoted</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">wife, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man? </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself toward the table. The</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">aged and withered hand, shaking, made its way to a cookie at the edge of the</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">table, when he was suddenly smacked with a spatula by his wife. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">"Stay out of those," she said. "They're for the funeral.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt" /></p>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">the aroma of his favorite chocolate chip cookie wafting up the stairs. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">He gathered his remaining strength and lifted himself from the bed. Leaning</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and with even</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">greater effort forced himself down the stairs, gripping the railing with</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">both hands. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">With labored breath, he leaned against the door frame, gazing into the</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">kitchen. Were it not for death's agony, he would have thought himself</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">already in heaven. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">There, spread out up on newspapers (newspapers?)on the kitchen table were literally</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">hundreds of his favorite chocolate chip cookies. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of heroic love from his devoted</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">wife, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man? </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself toward the table. The</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">aged and withered hand, shaking, made its way to a cookie at the edge of the</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">table, when he was suddenly smacked with a spatula by his wife. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">"Stay out of those," she said. "They're for the funeral.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt" /></p>
