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My Coffee Choice
The morning of this day was especially rainy and dark, overflowing with an intense cold that took over the atmosphere in a few minutes, bringing with it a strange fog that moved me to another universe without realizing it, while walking down a lonely street. As it is logical before the unforeseen winter weather, my first option to comfort my body, was to look for a cup of my favorite coffee in the usual coffee shop, where they know exactly how I like it prepared in freezing weather like this, not that it is a special technique, it is rather a traditional flavor that I enjoy very much since I was a child, nothing better than a creamy coffee with a touch of milk, sugar, and cinnamon, which overflows an exquisite aroma capable of bringing anything to my mind from the depths of my subconscious.
When I arrived at the avenue I always frequent, I began to realize that everything was different, it was literally as if I had traveled in time and space, placing myself in the glamorous city of Paris at the time of the Belle Époque, of that I could realize, when I passed by the newspaper stand and checked the date of publication indicating that it was 1913, something that at first surprised me, but then fascinated me, trapping all my senses in a reality that enchanted me forever for some unknown reason.
A very singular coffee shop called my attention and I decided to enter, while I listened in the background to the tune of a violinist that reminded me of the French music I used to listen to when I was a child with my grandmother, she played an old Edith Piaf acetate record with the song La Vie En Rose, which she liked very much and which remained eternally engraved in my memory.
In the strange place I noticed that I was the only customer, so the waitress of the place, who, by the way, had an unusual appearance for the time and the area where we were, turned to me wearing the traditional costume of the gypsy fortune-tellers and said:
— Welcome to the magic coffee stand, where you can choose from 3 special coffee beans brought from different parts of the world by ancestral sages. The first of them, which we will call coffee A, for having reached the hands of the regent in the expedition of Alexander the Great, has the properties of reviving a memory for 2 days; the coffee B It has its origin in the royal gardens of the Byzantine Empire, it has the power to erase a memory forever, and finally the most special of all, coffee C, brought to us from the Cave of Wonders famous for appearing in the story of the Thousand and One Night's by the wise Mulaj Nassr Eddin, this grain has the properties, as the genie who gave it to him said, to make any wish come true for a day, now then, you must say at this moment what your choice will be and why.
For a few seconds, I was fascinated with such a flamboyant proposal, so I decided to think carefully about my options before answering. After a few moments, during which the magical woman did not take her eyes off me even for a second, looking directly at me with stunning sky blue eyes perfectly outlined in black eyeliner, which made them stand out even more than usual on her smooth face.
My answer was decisive, and I didn't hesitate for another second before I said, I want the A coffee! I said out loud, not only because it was brought by Alexander the Great, the most powerful warrior that the history of the ancient world has ever known, but also because it included aromatic essences such as cinnamon, which he brought to the European world from his trip to the Egypt of the Pharaohs, but also because it will allow me to bring to my mind in a way that I would never forget, it allows me to bring to my mind vividly, the memory of the afternoons I used to spend with my dear grandmother who is no longer with us, listening to French music and enjoying a rich coffee with a touch of milk, sugar, and cinnamon, a taste that marked my life and that I enjoy every day.
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