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Editor's Note: Hundreds of Ann Landers' loyal readers have requested that newspapers continue to publish her columns. These letters originally appeared in 1999.

Dear Ann Landers: You once confessed in print that you are an incurable chocoholic. Since I am, too, I thought you might enjoy this essay. Someone sent it to me by e-mail. I don't know who wrote it. If you think it's funny, print it. — A Boston Babe

Dear Babe: I do indeed. Here it is:

"All About Chocolate"

If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It will take the edge off your appetite, and you will eat less.

If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, it may be a sign of a deeper problem.

Store your chocolate on top of the refrigerator. Calories are afraid of heights and will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.

Equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate make a balanced diet.

The preservatives in chocolate will make you look younger.

If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control-top pantyhose, and an entire garment industry would be out of business.

A nice box of chocolate provides your total daily intake of calories in one place.

Isn't that handy?

Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you will get one thing done.

Question: Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous? Answer: Because no one wants to quit.

Problem: How do you get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car? Solution: Eat it in the parking lot.

Feeling pressured to have sex? How informed are you? Write for Ann Landers' booklet "Sex and the Teenager." Send a self-addressed, long, business-sized envelope and a check or money order for $3.75 (this includes postage and handling) to: Teens, c/o Ann Landers, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045. To find out more about Ann Landers and read her past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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I am in a but of a quandry. I just reciently found that my wife of 25 years has been texting this suposed family friend for the last couple of years. They were very sugestive in nature very often during the day and at bed time. ie Kiss me baby before u go to sleep. I can,t wait to see you and so on. I found this out and asked my wife what was going on, an affair, she said no just flurtious as she believed he was going through a hard timewith his wife, and she believed she was going through one as well. Some one to talk too. I love my wife dearly she is the best thing that has happened to me in my life , the mother of my two children , a great person, alot of fun going out ,.she completes me.
What should I do, I feel like going over to this suposed friend and telling him that he is not a friend of mine and to keep his distance from us . As I live in a small town I will see him and I don t want to talk to him.
My wife said she will let him know that she will discontinue this texting with him and tell him that I know. I want my wife to disassociate herself with him. I feel like going over to see him and tell him how I feel and disassociate myself with him and his family. I am pretty sure his wife dosen t no what has been going on
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Posted by: Russell
Fri Jan 6, 2012 2:03 PM
Dear Russell,

Welcome to the forum! FYI, Ann Landers died many years ago. The Annies do not read the comments or respond to them. To write to them directly, send your message to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net. Or you can click on Write the Author at the top of the page - for any columnist you like.

In the meantime - I think you have partly the right idea. Drop this friend COMPLETELY and concentrate on your own marriage. Your wife seems genuinely remorseful, so counselling for both of you will be a big help. Your marriage will never be the same as before this thing happened, but with effort it can be just as good or better.

Do not confront your ex-friend or try to get involved in his marital problems. You will only make more trouble for yourself.

Best wishes - do let us know how you are getting on.
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Posted by: Beguiling Miss Pasko
Sun Jan 8, 2012 11:21 AM
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