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Self-control
Ron Boehme states that he remembers coming home from school and often being faced with a true test of self-control. The scent of freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies would hit him in the nostrils.
Racing into the kitchen he would see a plate of them sitting on the counter, but his mom would be at the sink cleaning up the dirty pans.
"Don't even think about touching those cookies," she would warn.
Boehme said, "It was like a shot to the stomach when she told me that."
Ron Boehme states that he remembers coming home from school and often being faced with a true test of self-control. The scent of freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies would hit him in the nostrils.
Racing into the kitchen he would see a plate of them sitting on the counter, but his mom would be at the sink cleaning up the dirty pans.
"Don't even think about touching those cookies," she would warn.
Boehme said, "It was like a shot to the stomach when she told me that."
