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Dear Reader,
It's getting more difficult every month to pick chocolate chip cookie winners. Hundreds of people enter the cookie giveaway and everyone writes such a heartwarming, funny, or just down right clever email that it makes me want to bake for each and every person. But there's only one of me and I only have one oven, so this month here are the cookie winners and a couple of their notes.
But before we get to that, let me tell you about Monica who has tried and tried to bake cookies without any success...
"I want to win your cookies and I must admit it is for purely selfish reasons! Apparently I have no talent for baking cookies. It doesn't matter the recipe, I've even tried yours. I don't think it's my oven...this is my second one. I have tried and tried...so I'm hoping you might take pity on me and my family and send a batch of your chocolate chip cookies, then my family would be able to see what a cookie is supposed to taste like!"
Monica if you're reading my column today, I'd be happy to call and we could have a step-by-step baking session over the phone. Send me an email and we'll make a date. Sounds like fun to me!
Congratulations to cookie winners Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton, Tracy Howe, Nancy Barker, Joyce Chronister (from the Martin Library), Lynn Larson, Rachel MeKwunye and the La Belle Family.
"Dear Suzanne, so what if I'm supposed to have outgrown Cookie Monster and all the hilarity he brings? Me want cookie! Cookies, actually. Lots and lots. I promise not to eat them all. I promise to share them with my coworkers and family members and upstairs-dwelling landlords. So long as I get three. I want three cookies just for me. I'll even send pictures. Deal?
Oh, right. I've been a regular reader for over a year, but for two years before that, my mom's forwarded me columns that especially touched her or brought a smile to her face. She gets the first cookie." -- Rachel Mekwunye
"Suzanne, I have been reading with you for about two years and have loved every minute of it! In January I had both of my knees replaced. Needless to say, it's been a heck of a recovery. Even though I have had arthritis for some twenty-five years, I really was not prepared for this kind of pain. But like all things, with time it has gotten a lot better. I have fallen in love with my two wonderful Physical Therapists and I would love to share your cookies with these wonderful people!!
When I was in the hospital and then in Rehab, for about three weeks, my husband brought You and your book excerpts to me every day!! Guess he should have a cookie or two, also, what do you think?"--Lynn Larson
Remember, the Chocolate Chip Cookie Giveaway happens every single month.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.DearReader.com
P.S. Author Barbara Bretton reads along with us every day at the book club. Sample her book Just Desserts and enter the free book giveaway. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/24xt48 And she's at our Book Forum this week http://www.emailbookclub.com/talk.html
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