speaking up for my previous lemon drizzle cake efforts, which I thought were a total failure but actually were usually fine, the fact that he said it in a slightly hostile way though, like why the heck did I change my recipe, the fact that there was an edge to it, the fact that, as a result, I internalized something negative about my drizzle cakes and that’s what’s stuck, the fact that negative stuff sticks much better than positive stuff, for some reason, and it’s made me hate making lemon drizzle cakes, the new way or the old way, the fact that negative stuff cloys, like duct tape versus
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