LESA LIGHT: Girl Guide cookies bring back memories

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LESA LIGHT: Girl Guide cookies bring back memories

As I left the checkout at the Superstore a few days ago, I very cautiously looked ahead to make sure that the Girl Guides and their secret weapon of cookies were gone.

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Phew! I did not have to feel guilty about purchasing yet another box of chocolatey mints. I’d already polished off the last box, plus a previous box of the delicious vanilla and chocolate cookies. My pants are already too tight, so I did not need any more temptation. But the girls were gone, so I was safe. Sigh. Those cookies are lethal and totally worth it.

When I bought one of their boxes from those innocently smiling saboteurs of diets, the girls informed me that they were raising money to go to England, Pax Lodge specifically.

“I was there!” I said. “It was........

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