If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect inher situationwasthat nowshecould eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.
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