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The week after Daddy's funeral had stormed, bad.

I woke to the sign of wind and rain and piano music.

I walked downstairs to see our den full of ladies, dusting, sweeping, mopping, cleaning.

One woman was even playing our hallway spinet.

"'Morning,' said my aunt, kissing my forehead.

"'You want some breakfast?'

"'No, I didn't.

I hadn't been hungry for weeks.

I'd lost weight because of it.

The only thing I could choke down were milkshakes, and because of this,

I haven't touched milkshakes since my voice dropped. My aunt led me into the kitchen. It was crowded.

Ladies and aprons everywhere, standing at workstations, dusting things with flour. Almost every

surface held pound cakes, layer cakes, and bun cakes or cookies.

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