-1. Warm, flavoured water with an amount of chicken inside, usually served for meals. Scalds tongue if swallowed too quickly. Also, apart from chicken, may include other ingredients not limited to salt, pepper and garden vegetables.

-2. A potpourri of creative passages, proses and poems by authors from around the world, illustrious or not, pertaining to imaginative ideas, real life experiences and with the intention of telling those in trouble, those feeling down, those feeling like life isn't worth it, that life is worth it, and that in any troubles, we are not alone. Also, apart from stories and poetry, may include other forms of creativity expressed in means not limited to photography and captioned drawings.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

A delightful read that some may choose to finish in a sitting. However, if one lacks the time, one may simply take the book bit by bit, reading through the different stories from the different segments at a time, without neceesarily being in order, as some portions of the book may prove only entertaining, and not meaningful, at the point in time.

I've found a lot of good quotes from this book. A lot of new perspectives, and different ways to compare different things. Take for example, how best friends are so different, yet are part of a set, for oh 'how can there be pepper without salt; the sun without the moon?'

Or perhaps, how hope can be found despite the proclamation by the best doctors that there is none, simply becuase doctors may be able to put metal in our bodies, and sew us back up, yet none of them can even create a blade of grass.

Or how a family is not a group of people related by blood, but a group experience of love.

Or how it is the misfits who are shunned at youth, yet grow up to be the ones who bring the difference to the world because they are unique.

Or how perfection is sought, when everyone is already perfect.

Or how the many other different sentences and meaningful teachings changed the lives of many different people during their youths.

It is really an amazing book to have hold in your hands.

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