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French Toast

Dear Elli,

I hate French toast.  Your father thinks I suffer from a psychological condition.  He told me this morning while he was making French toast for you and himself.  He knows better than to make any French toast for me.  Because I will throw it in the trash.

I'm not a big breakfast person to begin with.  I'm good with a banana or a granola bar.  That's about as dynamic as I get with breakfast.  I don't consider it important to eat a full-blown meal in the morning.  I'm not a farmer plowing fields at 8:00AM.  I sit at a desk for a living.  The most strenuous work I perform is my morning trek to the cafeteria for coffee. 

And French toast reminds me of being broke.  Your father and I ate that crap all the time back in the day.  For dinner.  I don't like breakfast for dinner.  I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now.  But now I have a choice.  And my choice is to throw it in the trash.  Because I hate French toast.  I also hate Hamburger Helper and Spaghetti-o's.  The two other staples of our former diets.  They are also likely to hit the bottom of the waste basket in this house.

But I know you like French toast.  I respect that.  And you can have it with your father.  I will eat the bacon.  And a granola bar.  But not the French toast.  Because I suffer from a psychological condition.  I hate French toast.

I love you, even though you eat French toast.

Mom

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