Poor old lad! One day Quicky really felt lonely in this world. He felt quite miserable and unwanted, until he came across a lovely stray dog, wandering aimlessly in the narrow streets of Valletta. At first Quicky tried in vain to win over this wonderful dog, but it kept its distance from Quicky.

Quicky felt even more unwanted and unloved and was on the point of giving up hope of making friends with the dog. However, he had an idea! He searched inside his pockets and got out a fun-sized chocolate and lured the dog towards him.

The dog soon fell for it and immediately showed Quicky how fond it was of chocolate!

With this, Quicky completely won over the dog, which now did not even want to let go of Quicky, so much so that it followed him to his home. Whereupon Quicky decided to adopt the dog as his new pet and named it appropriately Choko!

From then onwards, they became the best of friends. And, finally, Quicky really felt loved and wanted, even though he had to keep a continuous flow of mini-sized chocolates to maintain his tightly sealed friendship with Choko!

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