Nov. 19, 2025

An Eggs-ellent Ending

An Eggs-ellent Ending

Anxiety Addict's BS is more than excited to share another Megan Chacalos Story (You may know her as the Olive Oil Girl.)

A true story about Megan's YiaYia after immigrating to West Virginia from Greece, this story will have you laughing and also happy you can't smell it... 

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To the restless, the insomniacs, the stressed out, the worried,

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and the board. This is for you. Welcome to Anxiety

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Addicts Bedtime Stories, an original podcast by Joe Newman and

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Morgan Walsh, serving up hot, mostly true, twenty minute stories

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to turn off your brain and turn on your ram.

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The stories come from all over the Internet, whispered late

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at parties and from you to the bs inbox. But

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your secrets are safe here. All names have been changed

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to protect the guilty. So please sit back, relax, and

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send us your stories at the link in the show

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Notes and Sweet Dreams.

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During my childhood, I had DoorDash every single day, even

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though it didn't exist yet, because I had Maya Ya.

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Then one day she thought she was killing me. Megan

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didn't appreciate the unconditionally loving personal chef slash food delivery

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grandmother until she was an adult. It wasn't until she'd

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graduated college and found herself living in a New York

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City apartment where her dinner choices oscillated between chicken and

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vegetable flavored top ramen, that she could reflect on how truly.

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Great she had had it.

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Pryeyo's cooking was the stuff of legend. For the Chocolus family,

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meal time was how you showed your love. It had

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been that way for generations in Greece. For Megan's childhood,

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that took root in West Virginia, of all places. For

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Meghan's parents, the immigration adventure landed in Appalachia merely months

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before she was born. Both Sophia and Constantine had worked

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their pisos off to become engineers in their homeland. They'd

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moved from their small fishing town to Athens, Greece, where

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they rented an apartment. Crammed into the top floor of

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a bakery. Late at night, with the smell of baklavasnik

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up through the floorboards, the two engineers cooked up a

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plan to try their luck in America. It was an

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ambitious endeavor. Young people love ambitious endeavors. The endless paperwork,

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the late night phone calls with prospective employers, the cajoling

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of Constantine's mother to move with them, Yaya, who mostly

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just shook her head in while stirring an aromatic pot

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over the stove, the potty training of their daughter, Chloe,

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and then, to top it off, a positive pregnancy test

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that double pink line would promise the world. The addition

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of future actress and viral storyteller Megan Chocolus. This story

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is about her and eggs, not hers.

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We'll get to that.

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Out of all of the three point eight million miles

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that comprised the United States of America, the family found

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themselves employed and residents of Dems, West Virginia.

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It seems random. Maybe it was.

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The town had very little in common with its ancient

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Syrian namesake. In the foothills where the banjo's echo, the

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family made themselves a home and new life. There hadn't

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been much patience for Yaya's insistence on packing up her

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entire kitchen, curtains and all. But as she'd liked to

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remind her granddaughter, son and daughter in law on a.

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Bi weekly basis, she was right.

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She was right about the flowered plates and tablecloths. She

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was right about the artwork and pictures. She was right

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about her recipe books and teacups. It all made the

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house a home and was also a stipulation of her

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agreement to move in with her son and his family.

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Our heroine was born sixteen miles away in the city

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hospital when her mother's water broke three weeks early while

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solving an endless equation for the construction of a new bridge.

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The bridge would connect two major thoroughfares in the region.

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Sophia calmly finished the document and asked Constantine for a

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towel before they drove the speed limit to the emergency room. There,

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in a room with green checkered wallpaper, Megan was pronounced

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the newest member of Damascus eleven minutes after checkin, and

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true to her grand entrance on planet Earth, Megan spent

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the rest of her life showing up quickly and gifting.

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Everyone with a scene. It was kind of her thing.

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Meghan and her sister Chloe spent most of their time

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with Yaya while their parents worked long days. This is

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where the original DoorDash situation germinated. Yeaya loved to cook,

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like truly loved it. She was regularly floored by the

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selection at the local food lion.

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She would come home with.

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Her nit mesh bags full of her Greek ingredients and

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then the strange assortment of goods that had impulsively her eye.

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She'd sing nursery rhymes from her childhood while unpacking, marveling

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at each culinary wonder and shaking her head at the

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size of the lemons or the quality of the fish.

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As enamored as Yaya was by the new country, she'd

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of course left a piece of her heart in the

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old while she marinated the chicken and soaked the potatoes.

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Meghan and Chloe would toddle back and forth into the

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kitchen with their requests, and not only would Ya make

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them absolutely anything they wanted at any time of the day,

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but it would be restaurant quality, excellent and certainly better

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than any restaurant in the Great Damascus area.

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This was a fact that Yyat liked.

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To remind every one of Before every meal and most snacks,

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Chloe would wander in and ask for lemon chicken soup

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of glemono, which was always an entertaining word to hear

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in a child's voice.

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Sometimes it would be her famous.

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Kuru reikya, these fabulous braided butter cookies, which Megan liked

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to hide under Yaya's blue sofa blanket to eat later.

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On this particular day of this particular story, the request

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was four eggs. See Megan and Chloe would glue themselves

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to the TV after their parents dropped them off in

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the morning. Everyone thought that American television was ekpaede di go,

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which means educational, and the girls assumed that everyone was

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required to nod furiously every time they said this word.

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Greek is an expressive language, so the girls would be

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delivered to the kitchen. Many kisses exchanged, and Constantine would

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remind his mother, which he really didn't need to do,

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to give him a full report at the end of

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the day of what the girls had eaten. This is

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when Yaya would make her tea and fuss fuss us

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fuss over her two cherub faced granddaughters. And on the

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local PBS station on that morning in June was an

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educational program about chickens. PBS's Deep Dive covered everything you

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would and wouldn't want to know about poultry. This is

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where Meghan discovered the myriad of options for cooking eggs.

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It is an understatement to say that her mind was

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blown as she watched the cooks in the public television kitchen.

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It physically expanded, her world ballooned, her universe swelled. We

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are all lucky that her thickly braided brunette head didn't

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mushroom into the popcorn ceiling right then and there, yea Yah,

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Meghan called into the kitchen. She usually patted her chubby

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four year old feet out of the living room to

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put in her food order. Yyo's hearing wasn't perfect, and

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Megan learned the hard way that it was very important

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to be abundantly clear with her personal chef. But this

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was too exciting a moment to waste on the twenty

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steps it would take to order in person. This was

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nothing short of life changing. Y yeskadadled into the carpeted

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living room, where LeVar Burton's friendly face instructed the sisters

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on how.

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To properly care for a chicken coop.

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Megan's eyes shone so brightly that they could have lit

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up the room in the middle of the night.

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She had a plan. She was on a mission and

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she didn't.

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Know it yet, but Yeah was about to be her

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uninitiated accomplice.

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Yeah. Her voice was so cute.

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Imagine if a cabbage patch kid could talk, but it

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wasn't creepy. That's what Megan sounded like. Yayah wiped her

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hands on her apron and stealed her face as if

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preparing for battle.

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Yes, moromu, I am going.

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To eat eggs, Megan announced as if she were Achilles,

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boldly announcing his refusal to take part in the Trojan War,

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and Yeya accepted the declaration as such. Bravo, yeah, Ya,

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nodded furiously. Everyone knew that eggs were good for you.

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Greek grandmothers knew that fact in their souls.

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Now you will grow big and strong.

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Yea announced, as if she had been secretly waiting for

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this moment for a lifetime.

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How do you like I cook them?

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She asked her four year old sergeant, still nodding with

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the gravity of the demand, scrambled directed Megan as if

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the future of an ancient civilization depended on the answer.

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Yaya might not have known the.

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Difference between reading Rainbow and Guiding Light, both of which

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she let her granddaughters watch every day, but she knew

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how to take direction and also cook eggs. The order

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of two scrambled eggs took longer than they did on

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the television program. That's because the show took place in

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a diner and not in a Greek grandmother's kitchen. No

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one made eggs like ya Ya. There was salt that

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relatives brought all the way from the home country eggs

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from the farmer two miles west and parsley grown from

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the family's well loved garden.

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It's fair to say.

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That this was not a couple of pastel covered scrambled eggs.

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Nope. With ya Ya, every meal was.

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A masterpiece, and she knew this. So it was no

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surprise when Meghan inhaled the dish and asked for more.

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This time she marched into the kitchen herself.

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Yea Ya, those were yo perios.

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Megan didn't know many Greek words, as her grandmother wished

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she did, but she was a smart enough girl to

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have memorized the ones that complimented Yaya's cooking. Now, I

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would like to have them soft boiled. Now, ya Ya,

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who had wrapped and packaged an egg cup all the

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way from Athens, was excited. No one ever asked for

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soft spoiled eggs, and the egg cup had gone unappreciated

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since it was unpacked and placed in the cupboard with

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the tea cups four years prior. It was a double

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egg cup with the Greek flag on one side. Yeah

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didn't remember who gave it to her, but she remembered

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that it was in fact a gift and that was

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all that mattered. It took exactly five minutes for two

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eggs to sit perfectly boiled in their ceramic little egg seats.

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Of course, a sprig of parsley laid on the side.

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My little kuk Lamo. Here you go, four eggs. Bravo,

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very good.

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Also, yay'all looked at her little cherub faced granddaughter.

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Seriously, these are hot.

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Of course, it took Megan a bit longer to finish

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than the scrambled version. This is because four year olds

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are very afraid of any food that might be considered hot. Yeah,

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she called, after the warm, custardy yolks and firm white

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been devoured.

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Now I would like over easy.

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Yaya popped her world worn face out of the kitchen doorway.

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Her enthusiasm for the ingredient waned maud more eggs.

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Yes, Megan was as exuberant as the host of the

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television program Yea yah inhaled through her nose and nodded furiously,

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even though a film of worry condensed over her eyes.

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It took until this third iteration of eggs for Chloe

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to notice. Meghan's older sister looked up from her TV tray,

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now watching Blues Clues while eating her yogurt and berries.

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Chloe was good at a lot of things, and ignoring

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her younger sister was one of those. What are you doing,

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Chloe asked, already planning on making the world's longest driveway hopscotch.

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When she'd finished eating, Megan just raised one eyebrow. It

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was a deliciously ambiguous look that would get her both

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in and out of trouble for the next two decades.

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Chloe sighed, she didn't argue with that look. To be honest,

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no one in her family did. Chloe ignored the overeasy.

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She ignored the poached version, which Yaya delivered slowly, cautiously.

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She was busy with her puzzles when Megan ordered the omelet,

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which she swore yea Ya placed down in front of

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her sister with trembling hands. She was building a stick

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fort in the yard when the deviled eggs were delivered

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with what was definitely a side of Yaya's tears, and

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she was playing in the sprinkler for the six other

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iterations that sent ye Ya back and forth from the

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living room to the kitchen too many times to count.

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And she was so good at ignoring her sister that

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when she didn't notice the slight green hue that had

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tinged Megan's face by the time her parents got home

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from work that day. Instead of coming out to greet

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her son like she customarily did, this grandmother hid in

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the kitchen, wiping up a non existent mess. Their father

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swung open the door and called out, like he did

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five times a week, l lou dei MoU as his

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girls ran to greet him in the vestibule.

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How was today? Were you good for ya Ya? What

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did you eat?

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They went through these questions and answers every day like clockwork.

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But today, as Yeya appeared in the doorway, her hair

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a bit more frazzled than usual, her apron a bit

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more stained, her kitchen a bit steamier, Constantine noticed a

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shift in the energy at his farmhouse. Well, I had

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a great day, Chloe shrugged. I did a lot more

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than she did. Chloe shot Megan a look that only

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big sisters can give their younger siblings.

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Ya Ya was still nowhere to be seen. Ya Ya, mamma,

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are you here?

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Yaya shuffled out of her hiding spot, her feet dragging

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across the floor in her embroidered pentofis what did my

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strong girls eat today? Yaya's face took on the gravity

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of death. She intoned her answer much like the Orthodox

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priest of her childhood.

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Chloe eate yogurt and baddies. She had chicken and rice

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for lunch. I made her homas and carts for snack.

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Also of cour school raikya, because it is good for

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the bones.

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No one knew why Greek grandmothers thought that butter cookies

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were good for the bones, but it was a whole thing.

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That's when Megan waddled into the conversation, looking a bit

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greener than she had moments ago. And what about you, Megula,

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her mother asked, coming in from behind her father, placing

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a briefcase on the floor beside constantine. Yaya's eyes widened

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like a jackal about to fend off a predator's attack.

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Beads of sweat sprung on the seven year old's brow,

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and her sin got hotter than a chicken thigh. Yeyah

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Sophia rushed to her mother in law's side.

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Are you all right? Come sit down? What is the matter?

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Yeyah looked down at her youngest granddaughter and could not

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contain herself. The wail that escaped her lips could be

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heard from two cow pastures away. Megula, she cried, as

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if the girl was about to fall off the top

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of the parthenon.

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She she but Yeyah could not continue.

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Megan's parents looked at their child in fear.

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What could it be?

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Megan grinned threw her gastro intestrinal discomfort.

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What is it, Megan?

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Her father demanded, He'd had a long day and didn't

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have time for whatever kind of.

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Game this was.

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Megan put her hands on her hips and thrust her

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chest forward like a superhero or a four year old

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who had accomplished a very ambitious goal.

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She ate nineteen eggs.

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Ye Yuck cried out, as if she were Prometheus stealing

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fire from the gods. Yayuck crumbled to the floor as

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if unburdening herself from the secret she'd been carrying for

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a single afternoon, also removed all of the bones from

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her body. The force of the news blew both Constantine

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and Sophia back into the front door. Yeau called out

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her proclamation as if it would save her family for

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generations to come.

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She is going to die nineteen nineteen.

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The gravity of the number could not be overstated. Just

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the idea was overwhelming. Meghan and Chloe had no idea

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that their grandmother had been convinced that she was killing

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Meghan with her food orders. All day, this intrusive thought

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had been flooding the poor old lady with more anxiety

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than she could articulate. Mamma, but Yea sobs could not

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be contained.

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She asked for them over and over and over, and

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Yeyah had now fully dissolved into a puddle of ofvglemino

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soup on the carpeted floor.

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You don't have to give her everything she wants. Constantine's

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horror almost matched his mother's. But this scene had escalated

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to a level without reason. Megan, used to being center

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stage and now demoted to audience member, was able to

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briefly ignore her gastro intestrinal discomfort, since this whole thing

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was all about her. It was, in fact, oh so entertaining.

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I do.

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Yea Yah wailed, ready to be absorbed by the carpet

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and into the underworld with the rest of the gods

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and goddesses who had made Harmarcia a tragic or fatal mistake.

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Sophia helped scoop her mother in law off of the

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floor and save her from internal damnation. She walked ya

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into the kitchen, made her a cup of tea, and

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pulled out a large jar of prunes. Sophia sighed and

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shook her head. Megan sat on the floor like a

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stuffed gassy puppy. We will just have to get them

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out of her, Yaya nodded furiously up to the challenge.

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It would turn out, and that's what we're here for, guys.

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Awesome and meaningful life lessons that it is much easier

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to put eggs into one's body than to get them out.

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Our poor heroine.

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Was constipated for two whole weeks, and every time she

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asked for prunes, oh boy, she'd be sent to the

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duye Letta. There she would sit shorts down around her ankles,

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mouth open while ya Yah hand fed her the dried

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plums and.

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Endlessly.

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Needless to say, eggs were removed from Megan's diet for

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a solid six months. Nobody you ever thought to blame

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the real culprit, though, and that was the public broadcasting

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system of the Greater West Virginia area, or maybe the

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chickens themselves anyway. Now, Megan likes pop tarts for breakfast.

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