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Oh! Hi! Come on in! My name is Ruth Graves Wakefeild. I was making a recipe book so I could bake fresh cookies for the passengers. Maybe I should tell you my story first. I was born on June 17, 1903, in Easton, Massachusetts. I lived in Whitman, Massachusetts and when I grew up I went to college and became a dietitian and lectured about foods in Framingham State, the college I went to. On June 26, 1926 I got married to my husband, Kenneth Donald Wakefield. Two years later I had a son, Kenneth Donald Wakefield, Jr. After I got married, I bought an inn with my husband. We named it the Toll House Inn, in fact, this is that same inn! Here at this inn I cook meals for the passengers who stay here and sleep. Now, the reason why we call This place “The Toll House Inn” is because the passengers who stay here have to pay a toll. The other day I was cooking something and I wanted to give the passengers a new treat, so I chopped up some chocolate and threw them in my cookie dough. I was unsure what I would call the cookie if the idea worked. Then after the cookies were done, I got them out of the oven and decided to call them chocolate chip cookies. People love my recipe a lot. It was even published in the Boston newspaper! Soldiers from World War II got care packages that had chocolate chip cookies from my recipe and loved them so they asked their families to send some more cookies and I got overwhelmed with letters from around the world. Nestle, the chocolate chip company, was asking for the rights to put my recipe on the back of their chocolate chip packages. I made a deal and I sold the recipe for $1.00 and a lifetime of chocolate chips. Thump! (Falls on the floor) I died on January 10, 1977 age 73 in Plymouth Massachusetts.