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All Flavors Homemade from Momma's Recipes

Freshman Freedom Swirl-Sprinkled with our hot salted tears.

Fudge Shui-Two scoops guarantee you'll keep your dorm room clean.

Rum Raisin-You might be drinking, but are you pooping?

Virgin Vanilla Bean-Comes with a single cherry.

Ebony and Ivory-The yinyang since you've been gone. Are we happy for you? Are we sad?

Ginger-vite Ice with Candy Floss-So delicious in your mouth, where your teeth are. Speaking of which, did you brush?

Orange You Forgetting to Call Your Mother?-Special delivery at parent's request, live streamed for proof of life.

Additional Toppings

Butterscotch kisses

M&M-Better on your ice cream than on your iPod!

Mixed Nuts-This best not describe your choice of new friends, thank you.

Peanut Butter Chips-Ha! Only a test, is your epi-pen with you?

- Peyton Price and Alexandra Rosas

Peyton Price is the author of Suburban Haiku: Poetic Dispatches From Behind the Picket Fence. You can find her at suburbanhaiku.com. Alexandra Rosas is a storyteller for the nationally acclaimed The Moth, as well as a contributor to several anthologies and weekly columns. You can follow her on twitter @gdrpempress and on her blog.

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