Because she’d finally worked out that life wasn’t the blind bake. The aim wasn’t to follow someone else’s vague instructions in the hope you’d produce something they’d approve of to a set of standards they hadn’t told you. It was your ex-girlfriend coming through for you when nobody else did. It was yelling at your kid’s teacher for being casually biphobic. It was having the same goddamn argument about brushing your teeth every night for four years. It was maybe meeting someone who was like nothing you thought you were looking for. It was winning a TV baking competition. Or not winning it. Or
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