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A Sweet Chance

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'Sweet' is a favored word and the only one that most probably goes well with my constitution. At odd hours when  we accidentally stumble upon unexpected surprises  well, 'sweet' is the word that most sweetly sweeps through the being. Morning saw a sweet kid coming up to me and sweetly whispering: 'Ma'm, I don't have any more sweets'. I had already eyed the 'Mars' chocolate in the Chemistry teacher's hand. I should refrain from  chocolates. However, had it been a child of a different grade I'd have surely minded. But these words coming from a 9 year old, genuinely from a sweet heart, quelled my rising desire when I eyed the 'Melody' slowly being forwarded. I had come to the school a bit late, just in time for the assembly only to know that due to technical failures, there would be no power.Then there was a substitution class like an ice-cream topping on creamed lassi. Howmuchever things looked different, I found my spirit u