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Article: Beautiful sugar Easter eggs bring back magic of past joys.(Editorial)
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- The Boston Herald
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- March 31, 2002
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I wonder if children still get excited about those fancy sugar Easter eggs that bakeries and candy stores sell, that you can peer into and enter into by way of imagination? Panoramic eggs are what the Williams-Sonoma catalog calls them, explaining that "These eggs are fashioned of sugar and whimsy in equal proportions.''
Indeed they are - as light as meringue, as gritty as sand, not something to eat, but something to dream on, an Aladdin's lamp with the wish already told. But do children still wish? Do children still hold these storybook eggs in their hands and will themselves inside?
I don't know if one of these eggs ever graced my Easter basket, or if ...