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She stood over a simmering pot of tomato sauce—her grandmother’s recipe, the one written in fading ink on an index card stained with olive oil. The windows were fogged with steam. Outside, the first real snow of December was beginning to fall, thick and quiet.

Clara stepped inside, stamping snow off her boots. She smelled like cinnamon and something else—clove, maybe, or the kind of confidence Abby had forgotten she could borrow. abby winters kitchen

They ate standing up, snow falling outside the window, the kitchen finally full of something that wasn’t memory. She stood over a simmering pot of tomato

“Sorry,” the woman said. “I’m Clara. From 3B? The building next door? My oven died in the middle of baking this, and your light was on, and I thought—well, I thought maybe you’d let me finish it here. I’ve knocked on three other doors. You’re my last hope before I eat raw pie dough in the stairwell.” Clara stepped inside, stamping snow off her boots

“Someone else did,” Abby said carefully. “But I’ve kept it.”

Abby wiped her hands on her apron—a ridiculous thing printed with cartoon avocados—and walked to the kitchen doorway. There stood a woman in a navy peacoat, snow melting in her dark curls, holding a foil-covered pie dish like a shield.

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