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Andrew Seaman: I wanted to master a new skill in my case baking, which had been something you'd stayed away from. My mom had taught me to cook but she had never taught me to bake. It was an act of peacemaking, not that we were at war, but it was an overt act of saying, you know, I value this thing you do so well, teach me how. And then she did and then she did. We're very similar, very much alike and we've had friction and difficulty over the years. So learning to do those things, including strudel with her, was a way of interjecting and internalizing, not just the
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