One day a bored cookie jar left its home and traveled across the countryside until it met a dog. "Would you like to try a chocolate chip cookie?" the cookie jar asked.

The dog tried a cookie and enjoyed it. Then he spent the remainder of the day gobbling up cookies and talking with the cookie jar. From that day forward, anytime the cookie jar was filled with a new batch of cookies, it took them to the dog that ate them with delight. Before long, the dog fell in love with the cookie jar.

Then one day, the dog wanted to surprise the cookie jar with a visit. As he approached the cookie jar's home, he looked through a window of the cottage and saw an elderly woman filling the cookie jar with dozens of oatmeal cookies. The dog was confused and left quietly.

For a week the cookie jar tried to see the dog, but he was not in their usual meeting place; so it searched for its love, and soon it found him near a small creek. "What happened to you?" the cookie jar asked.

"I'm sorry," the dog replied, "but I loved you for your cookies, and I now know they come from somebody else."

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