Ms. SUSAN YANG(ph): My name is Susan Yang, and the worst gift, in plural, I would have to say, are probably are those of--although I love chocolate and candy--those are probably the worst kinds of gifts because it's just temptation looking me in the face every day.

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Or perhaps Stinky knows something about the candy that I, a former Snickers-bar-a-day addict (they are delicious), had overlooked.

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But I also logged north of 25 hours on the match-3 puzzler Candy Crush Saga on Facebook.

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There's something about the journey of John Waters' Hairspray to its current incarnation as a candy-colored, big-budget movie musical that I can't quite believe.

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I've been walking along the promenade and enjoying the smell of Blackpool - cotton candy, French fries and salty sea air.

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Readers as old as I am will remember the old Tootsie-Pop commercial where the owl can never lick the candy more than three times without biting into it.

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While common sense shows us many good strategies to avoid decision fatigue, I really would not have guessed that a milkshake or candy bar could act as a kind of band-aid to deal with it once it sets in.

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