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Sometimes life can throw situations at you that can be very bitter, but yet sweet. You may have your car not start one morning and you’d have to walk all the way to work, but the day would be wonderful walk. This point is made clearer by Debra Gwartney’s essay simply called Cake, which is an excellent passage that goes into this subject and other themes such as unhappiness in unbalanced marriages and expectations. This starts off with her in the kitchen, starting a delicious german chocolate cake and revisiting memories from when she was at a Bavarian. She drifted away from the party and to the table of lavish european foods to see the same chocolate cake on the table. Instead of being a normal person, she chowed down

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