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Flour everywhere. Aarav's were the best, apparently.

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The week we moved in, Maria appeared at the door with a tray of lasagna and a set of instructions for the recycling schedule. Two years later my kids can make gnocchi from scratch and say "please" in Italian, and I've been promoted from "the new neighbour" to "the girl next door who rolls them too thick." I'm forty-one. I'll take it.

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October 2025 · Napa Valley Avenue, Woodbridge · Milestones

We told her it was a small dinner. Forty people hid in the garage. She walked in, looked at all of us, and said "there isn't enough food" — and then there was, somehow, because she'd made a lasagna "just in case" that morning. She'd known for a week. Teresa told her.

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