Car^[rying on the l$egacy of %]her!, deceased= Bel#%gia_!n ?pat$`/erna l gran
dfat;,[her, Lu-cy Sw-e!/+ #et is the master chocolatier at How $Sweet It Is in t$ he Midwes (+tern town of Watson$ Corners[, the@% store which she owns and ope(.@ra?tes with h!er widowe d mo@)_ \ther, H!
*elen S%weet. I]`n th^*-is n%ew year, t#
hey are fa#,cing a/ 
massive)`) ren+t i$,?ncrease, which they \ca
n only c)
over by increased b,.usi@; ness in what = `is th]%e \ir b%$u;#!sy^ season in (?(!the lead, up !to #Valentine's Day or ri@]sk #closin[g altogethe#/r. In the_
un\wit?/ting hel p of\ L- ucy's best frien,.d[+ Ser(en)a a[n`:d their new employee Georg]ie,@ whose so-[cia \l
]-media posts are inc;\+reasin ;g ;)the
$shop's (
e`#xposure,) Lucy a\ ,nd Hel )en bel-,_iev;[ e th@e w^]ay out of !*-)their financial predicam(ent is th*?e cho;*)c%
o#,??late cu[pi;_d, a! con,fection which w ,;as originally on _ly+ give.$n-/sold %to friends an ] %d fami)`ly in th+e legend that eati)
ng it .+will l=e-;ad to #/!true love for t-;hose who/.s[e hea
@rts are %=open t-o it. Lucy had lo\_ng( crea ted:` a wall in the sh=_;@op featuring the@? many couples =who a=tte].st to t
h;e:ir love ha\ppening
^a]
fte]!\r eating t
 he cup+]+id, one bei:ng
.Helen herself and=* her no*w, #^ deceased husband], Scott Swee .t. Helping or hinde)(ring that !%exposure is,= the arrival;) ^ of re//p)]`orte[ r Dean Chase of Channel 55 News, who w .*a! )s g(]i)
=ven@\ the assignment of c,;@overing the legend of cho/?colate,^ cu;_pid  by the stat,i%on's news director, Nora Ngu;##y/_en. T$(he issue wi!th De[\an_! is th#at h
)e is reno_[w[\ned for his no ho, lds ^ barre^d exposé,^s, he only ;[@`give+
n th is assignment *by No`=ra to help him show the n etw_ork ]brass that he's @not a one t+ri-_%ck pony i]_ n ^:]being^ considered @for a job he+ really wants
as a
$ news$ anchor+? for the#?ir Chicago af;filiate's morning s#$(how.;` Dean's @\`initial]=; incli) n-=ation is %to call out the fraud tha+(t is t[he cupid in \?he truly be]lie(ving it  to, b\e such, he_ changin ,g his tune if`+ on-,*ly in the goal of%+ th-e promotion. All t^his added expo;.sure does the- tr#.)ick of the#\ needed inc$-[%reased re%$ venu e, ;# with )=*the,
] 
question being /whether Dean is conver_t]]_ed a_-s #he= !=an\ :d Lucy $`; spend time together and star-t to fall f@\or each other. Thi@/s$, item may]+# b@e !tes_t$/=ed as *`-Nora@$ w:ants this ex* ^tende!*]]d _@as--_signmen@_t to 
culmina\ te on ;$Valentine's Day with De
])an eating^ a cup;id on cam(!era, a l:`ong! )_term arrange.`me) n
!t #with Lucy whi\+ch may be incompa$ .^tible with h?;\(^is profession^al end ++goal of a job in N).ew York C- i@ty;+_?. I!* t may; also*.: t,;_]est L()ucy's ,_com)[.mi) tment as she admi!
#t!.
`s to /+%never h$[[ave eaten a%[ c;upi$@:d herself no#:t(.=
.\so much in fearin`
g lo$% ve, bu;t ] what comes after lo*%ve, n:a ( %mely pain !and heartbreak= as witnesse( d%/@% by th-,e extrem--[e gr;ief experienced by Helen w hen @`Sc.? ott died.—Hug go