lost and found
{snippets and stories #3}

you must have known how to can dill pickles, but just like your molasses cookies, no one has the recipe.

over the years, those cookies have become legendary, tasting far better in all our minds than they ever did in real life.

it should be an easy thing, to replicate a common recipe, but nothing ever tastes as good as memory.

that’s always the missing ingredient.

you were a little bit hard but your cookies were always soft.

you always had oranges and wintergreen lotion to soothe your tired nurse feet.

all my memories of you smell like starch and nostalgia.

and i always walk away feeling hungry.

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{snippets and stories #3}

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