Status Updates From Eat Cake

Then Florence Allen did the most remarkable thing. She put her hand on my wrist, just set it there like it was the most natural thing in the world to put your hand on the wrist of someone you barely knew. She looked at me squarely when she spoke. “Everybody has parents. Very few people take care of them.”

A slice of cake never made anybody fat. You don’t eat the whole cake. You don’t eat cake every day of your life. You take cake when it is offered because the cake is delicious. … A cake is what’s served on the happiest days of your life.