The Gingerbread Man and Woman

Once a baker baked a Gingerbread man and woman; the gingerbread man with shorts and a shirt of blue icing; the gingerbread woman with yellow icing hair and an icing dress of pink and, because they were too hot to eat, he left them on the window sill to cool down.
But the gingerbread man and woman came to life and when they did, the Gingerbread man climbed down from the windowsill, telling the gingerbread woman that he would find a way out of the bakers kitchen so they could escape.
Just when the Gingerbreadman had found a catflap through which they both could slip, however, suddenly the baker came back into the kitchen and saw the Gingerbread man missing.
"What has happened to the man?", he asked.
But when he did, the Gingerbread woman said,
"My husband has gone to look for a way to escape and you'll never catch him?".
Hearing this, the baker grinned.
"Oh I won't won't I?", he said.
Then the baker went and brewed up a pot of hot coffee and, pouring out a cup, he grabbed hold of the gingerbread woman and, sitting at his kitchen table holding her over the coffee cup, said,
"Gingerbread man, give yourself up or I will dunk your little gingerbread woman in my coffee until her legs get soft and fall off".
And hearing this the Gingerbread woman cried out,
"Oh help me! Help me! Please don't let him dunk me in his coffee".
And then, because he could bear his Gingerbread wifes cries no longer, the Gingerbread man came out of hiding and shouted to the baker,
"Here I am! Eat me if you want but please let my Gingerbread wife go".
And seeing the Gingerbread man standing on the kitchen floor, the baker put down the Ginger   bread woman and bent down to grab hold of her Gingerbread husband.
However, no sooner had the Baker got the Gingerbread man within his grasp when, laughing evilly, he said,
"Ha! Ha! Now I shall eat you both up with my coffee".
But then, just as the Baker was saying this, suddenly the Gingerbread woman pushed over his pot of hot scalding coffee so that it fell off of his kitchen table and all over his lap.
Yelping in pain the baker let go of his grip upon the Gingerbread man who fell onto the table and then he and his Gingerbread wife climbed down the table cloth on the kitchen table and ran as fast as they could out through the catflap in the kitchen door.
The baker was not happy with his cookies escaping however and so calling for his cat and giving him the scent of gingerbread to follow, he sent out the cat to track down the runaway Gingerbread couple.
As the cat was chasing them however, the Gingerbread man and Woman came to a river and there was no way to cross it.
"We're doomed", said the Gingerbread man, "We can't cross the river and the bakers cat will catch us for sure".
But then the Gingerbread woman put her hand in his.
"Would you still love me if my gingerbread legs were bitten off?", she asked.
"Why ofcourse", her husband replied, "I will always love you".
"What if my arms were bitten off aswell", asked the Gingerbread woman.
"Even then", replied her husband, "No matter what, I will love you in my candy heart forever".
"Well then", said the Gingerbread Woman, "I would happily jump into the river with you".
And so the Gingerbread couple, just as the Bakers cat was about to pounce upon them and eat them up, jumped into the river with a splash.
And as they sank into the river, their Gingerbread bodies soaking up the water, became soft and started to crumble to pieces.
But their souls did not die. Instead they went up to a candy covered heaven where Gingerbread people have white icing wings and golden icing halos and they lived happily ever after.