Question
I found this hanging house plant in a store, fell in love with it and it did not come with instructions on how to care for it. The woman in the store said it needed alot of light and would flower once every 7 years.  I called it a Bob Marley plant, it had long "dreads" and the leaves were about in inch long, not flat.That summer,I had it outise and it flowered tiny ones, and smelled like chocolate.  I brought it in the house when summer was over, and slowly, it molded, and died on me.  What was this plant?  I want to try again, but how do I care for it?  

Answer
Don't ask why, I just have a feeling this might be a kind of Hoya plant.

But I have no reason to know that.

Since we cannot rely on esp for this question, I should proceed w/ some followups.

And by the way, you are not the first person to do this.  Often, an obsession with indoor and outdoor gardening begins with a single plant.  Like that first cigarette.

There are SOME Hoya blooms and leaves on a personal "My Hoya Page" website (http://www.angelfire.com/co3/hoyagrower/hoya.html). Do any of these flowers look like yours?

Hoyas have a reputation for taking forever to bloom - and one author wrote in "The Fragrant Year" it took her 7 years to get flowers.  She described optimal conditions: bright light was the key, and lots of patience.  If you purchased a Hoya carnosa, the salesperson was only partly wrong; a happy Hoya should bloom every year, on schedule, after that.  Pity you lost yours!

The "Hindu Rope Plant" is a variety of Hosta that grows in curls and could resemble dredlocks.

The Gardino Nursery website (http://www.rareflora.com/hoyaaustralis.htm) lists Hoyas and i.d.'s its "chocolate" fragrance - also mentioned in The Fragrant Year.  Are you sure you didn't have this one for dessert?

Let me know if this is indeed the plant you purchased.  I'll give you places to buy it on the internet if you do.