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#231 Of Phantom Sweet Cigarettes and Ravalgaon…

So I am back to memories. I have ‘A Beautiful Mind’ to remember my childhood just like a black and white video tape. Two incidents stand out when I try to associate my past with chocolates…

So the first one goes back really far into my childhood, I do not even remember if I could walk or talk back then… but it was sometime around 1987 or 88 when I was about two or three years old and I was travelling with my entire family to Nagpur. I remember the point when my eldest brother was standing in the train, and I could see mountains in the background, the train running fast around them, and he had a cigarette in his mouth. Well not the usual cigarette, but a sweet candy cigarette. It was Phantom. As kids we loved ‘smoking’ Phantom Cigarettes. The coolest part of the entire stick was supposed to be the red-painted tip which required some lick polishing to glow like a lighted cigarette end. The fad lasted many years…

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