Thanks for a utterly surprising article.

I love the life-savers story,

as an alternative to melting chocolate

in a hot summer.

When I was a little girl getting my hair cut

at a traditional barbers

with the red and white poles out the front

I could select a pack of Life-savers

when i was finally done with riding

up and down in the chair

and asking the barber Ludvig

what all the different bottles

had inside them

he humoured me

especially after waiting for my brothers to finish getting their haircuts

without any bother or questions at all

just begrudging reluctance

It was in the early 1970s

I was 4, they were teens

It took me like 8 minutes to pick a pack of LS

Difficult, Musk was my fave

With a Mum who said

sweets will rot your teeth

I always felt indulged by

the new do

being pampered

application of some nice smelling lotion

riding up and down ten times in the chair

and my own pack of Life-savers to savour.

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