Birthday gift? Chocolate bars, please. For as long as she could remember, Cocoa adored chocolate.

When Cocoa married her high-school sweetheart, their wedding celebration was delicious, from hot chocolate (with or without marshmallows) to a fudge chocolate wedding cake.

The couple adopted a Chocolate Lab, and lived happily ever after.

Roberta Beach Jacobson is the author of Demitasse Fiction: One-Minute Reads for Busy People (Alien Buddha Press, 2023).