Just As I Am
“As Robby had indicated, being a sorter wasn’t difficult. She merely needed to stay attentive and exercise quick reflexes to pluck the less-than-perfect candies from the sorting trays before they were carried by toters to the packaging area. She learned quickly how to see at a glance whether enough nutmeats covered the tops or if the flavored creamy centers—raspberry, vanilla, buttercream, maple—peeked from beneath the coating of rich chocolate. Only the perfect candies went into boxes for sale. The others were divided up among the youngest factory workers on Saturday.Because Daisy was so close to sixteen years old when she hired on, she didn’t receive a bag of imperfects, but she didn’t mind. The younger children received even less pay than she did, so they deserved a little something extra. Robby bought her a box of Dinsmore’s chocolates for her sixteenth birthday—the biggest box available of chocolate-covered creams, caramels, and fruit-and-nut filled, all arranged in neat rows in a... flat box wrapped in gold foil and tied with a big red ribbon.MoreLess
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