One Missing Ingredient in the Recipe Mother Left Behind
A child discovers the missing ingredient in their mother's recipe was love itself, but struggles to recreate it with equal measure.
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But when I reached my mother's age, I understood: that one remaining ingredient was the love of the one making it.
I followed my mother's recipe exactly, yet the taste never came out the same.
It seems I cannot love myself as much as my mother loved me.
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