Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates

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and actions. There does not seem
to be any plan or order to these events, just everything that happens.
Everything. Life is a long process with good, bad and indifferent points.
According to the World Book Encyclopedia, a box is "a container,
usually with four stiff sides, a bottom, and a lid to pack or put things
in," and chocolate is "a substance made by roasting and grinding cacao
seeds." A box of chocolates would logically be a container which holds
cacao products. A scientific dissection of a box of chocolates would show
a box (usually rectangular or heart shaped) filled with anywhere from one
to dozens of small, individually wrapped chocolates. Usually the type of
chocolate and the filling of each individual varies inside a given package.
In America however, a box of chocolates means much more then this simple
addition of definitions and a direct visual analysis would lead one to
believe. A box of chocolates, in our referent system, is a symbol. ...

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