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what it means to be a woman (and it’s my birthday!)

by Emily Wierenga | Aug 1, 2012 | birthday, dessert, eating disorder, fear, flower, food, garden, hope, love, mum, she loves magazine, woman

She always made me carrot cake, from scratch, on my birthday. It was the one dessert I’d let myself eat because it tasted like love.Mum would stand in the kitchen, August wind blowing through gingham curtains, her apron on, mixing, and she always looked a little sad,...

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