Candy and Me
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As Liftin recounts her record-setting candy consumption, loves and friendships unfold in a funny and heartbreaking series of bittersweet revelations and restorative meditations. Hilary survives a profound obsession with jelly beans and a camp counselor, a forgettable fling with Skittles at a dot-com, and a messy breakup healed by a friendship forged over Circus Peanuts. Through thick and thin, sweet and sour, Hilary confronts the challenges of conversation hearts and the vagaries of boyfriends, searching for that perfect balance of love and sugar.
Written with a fresh dry humor that will immediately absorb you into Liftin's sweet obsessions and remind you of your own, Candy and Me unwraps the meaning found in the universal desire for connection and confection. Treat yourself to Candy and Me -- being bad never read so good.
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- Intro
- Cover
- Colophon
- Also by Hilary Liftin
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Warning
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Sweet Tooth
- Sugar
- Trix
- Candy Corn
- Cocoa
- Ice Cream
- Flake
- The Assortment
- Conversation Hearts
- Spree
- Bottle Caps Nostalgia
- Tessana's Butterfly Cake
- Mints
- Nonpareils
- Skor
- Jelly Belly Jellybeans
- I Know What You're Thinking.
- Fruit Slices
- Fudge
- Snickers
- Junior Mints
- Part Two: Sugar and Spice
- Smarties
- Swiss Petite Fruit
- Conversation Hearts, the Reclamation
- Lipo
- Frosting
- The Assortment, Revisited
- White Chocolate Breakup
- Devil's Candy
- Fruit
- Lemonheads
- Fireballs
- Feeding the Habit
- Bull's-Eyes
- Old-Fashioned Marshmallow Eggs
- Skittles
- Circus Peanuts
- Mini Bottle Caps, Try Again
- Swiss Chocolate Ice Cream
- Sugar-Free
- A Heart-Shaped Box of Chocolates
- Part Three: Just Desserts
- Taffy
- Bottle Caps Regained
- Twizzlers
- Icing Off the Cake
- Necco Wafers
- Cotton Candy
- This Woman Needs Help
- No, Thank You
- Starburst
- The Truth about Circus Peanuts
- Peanut Butter Cups
- Tootsie Rolls
- Name Your Candy
- Old-Fashioned Marshmallow Eggs: Drawing the Line
- With This Bottle Cap.
- Meltaways
- Epilogue: Candy West
- Resources
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
