Word: marshmallow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a man becomes a father, he is suddenly inflated to the size of the Sta-Puf Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters. His shoes don't fit; his hatband leaves a mark. He can barely see his feet, at which his children gather, look up and can barely see his head. And the weight! I have tried to dredge my father from his ocean floor for nearly 25 years, since he went down, at the fairly young age of 67. In a decade or so, I will be older that he is, or was, yet I come no closer to reaching...
...works: a double mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy, followed by radiation and then more chemo. It bought her 18 months of symptom-free life. Then one hot August night, she recalls, "I went to rub my neck, and there was a tumor about the size of a marshmallow." Bradfield was already depressed--her daughter had just died in a car accident--and she never wanted to face chemo again. "I thought I was probably going to die, and I didn't want to die bald and throwing...
Maybe you do a token run once in a while or count running up the stairs to your class as your daily exercise, but as you become softer and softer, you're realizing that things have got to change before you become a marshmallow...
...rare hometown concert by the rock band Phish--a treat the ice-cream magnates have sponsored to raise money to clean up nearby Lake Champlain. A girl recognizes Ben. "Could I, like, make a suggestion?" she asks. "It'd be really great if you could make a marshmallow for us vegetarians...
...have just entered the socially conscious zone, where certain ice-cream lovers expect Ben & Jerry's Homemade not only to clean up the lake but to rid marshmallows of their faint animal by-products too. And, whoa. In this case, anyway, Ben & Jerry's had the answer: it uses a substitute for marshmallow gelatin, which comes from bones. Voila, a loyal customer...