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February 8-14, 2012

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My Teenage Sonata - A Love Story


A song that is sung by Sam Cooke takes me back over 50 years ago to my first love. A handsome young man who even gave me a picture of himself and on the back he wrote, "I pray that we would not forget each other for our whole lifetime." In the song, it says about a lifetime remembering each other. Today 50 years later, I still sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if I had not broken up with him.

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Confectionery Serves Sweet Nostalgia


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There’s something new and delicious on the horizon for your Valentine’s shopping this year. The recently reopened Shane Confectionery, at 110 Market Street, welcomes visitors with more than 300 varieties of hand-crafted candy. Much of it is made with vintage machinery housed on the upper floors of the premises.

Champagne-flavored  chocolates, chocolate-covered handmade marshmallows, and hazelnut milk chocolates are among  the current Valentine’s favorites, according to candy clerk Lindsay Yurcaba. This week, chocolate-dipped strawberries also became available.
 
Located in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic district, the store  has been a site for the candy business since 1863, and had been owned and operated by the Shane family since 1911. Brothers Ryan and Eric Berley purchased the shop and the Shane family’s recipes after Barry Shane retired in 2010, and have lovingly recreated a confectionery of a bygone era.   
 

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