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Five days to go before the last library renewal is up...I MUST finish

From 170-175, Narrator off-and-on discusses the origin of her home baking business, which has grown to a very time-consuming enterprise without her ever really meaning or believing that it deserved to.

Title has been mentioned again. Second time as I recall. Not really sure what it means.

“When Mommy was sick, we were all a mess, somebody once brought over an undercooked chicken and told us to “finish” cooking it ourselves at suppertime, or whenever, the fact that even we knew that was unsafe, the fact that the last thing a destroyed family needs is salmonella, or E. coli or whatever”