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For Valentine's Day, I bought a bag of chocolates for each kid and a large box of chocolates for my wonderful wife Michelle. Chocolate has a special place of endearment in the Moses household. You will always find some chocolate or something that contains chocolates. You name it and we have it like chocolate ice cream, chocolate syrup for Seth's sudden cravings for chocolate milk, chocolate chip mint ice cream for Ms. Tabitha, chocolate cookies, and on and on. I bought all of these chocolates at a Lindt store which is at the Rio in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Everyone in the family including myself and Patricia were enjoying the creamy chocolates for dessert after we had our Valentine's Day dinner. The dinner consisted of french fries, chicken strips and nuggets, a double cheeseburger and a McChicken. Yup That's right! We had McDonald's for dinner. I still haven't opened my bar of chocolate which is a Chili flavored dark chocolate. I will probably dig into...

My wife's good friend from Canada brought my favorite chocolates  which are only available in the United Kingdom and Canada (at least that is where I have seen it).  The chocolates are called Quality Street and frankly they are simply delicious.  The Quality Street chocolates come in a container and they are individually wrapped.  The chocolates come in twelve flavors like Coconut Eclaire, Hazelnut Caramel, Chocolate Fudge, etc., and etc.  I still remember when I first ate them. I was four years old and I got my first box when I turned four.  I single handedly finished a 2 lb box of them.  The next day I was sick and eventually had worms. Through the whole ordeal, I thought the chocolates were worth the pain.  Once I moved to India when I was five, my decadent habit was put rest since I never got a hold of them.  My taste buds would occasionally revive when my dad or some other person would send my parents a box of Quality Street chocolates.  After our honeymoon in October 2002, ...