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As I lay here dying in this dark and dismal

  • As I lay here dying in this dark and dismal room, I can't help but recollect the events that brought me here. I should have known never to trust Cassandra with the necklace.
  • The locket. It contained the secret recipe to Grandma Bagg's corn pudding. In the spirit of the holiday, I foolishly showed Cassandra the necklace, thinking she would just copy
  • the way her mom acted when I showed her Grandma Bagg's corn pudding recipe. But my thinking was flawed, so flawed. Cassandra was a tactile learner, so, you know what that means.
  • Her hands were all over my grandma's recipe book, rubbing the thin sheets of paper between her learning fingers. I'm an auditory communicator so I yelled, "Oi! Cassandra! No!"
  • Cassandra looked up from the cookbook, irritated. "Listen, books were meant to be read. I know it was your grandma's, but surely she would have wanted someone to
  • cook her as she intended. It's her last will & testament. She wrote garnish with pepper corns marinate in brandy & flambé. Its true to your grandma's character & kind of like crema
  • Tion, only it won't cost you $2,000. She did her research and found the Cremation Society charged $2,000 for a onetime fee, payable upon death. She designated her favourite brandy
  • be served at her cremation to everybody there except Stewart. She explained that she had suspected that the twin that died was really Stewart & that this Stewart was really Vicki.
  • The crowd shared bewildered looks. "Say that one more time," said one particularly portly gentleman in the front." "I said," she replied patiently "that Stewart is dead and this
  • story is over, Fatso." The portly gentleman was taken aback. "I'm sorry," she told him, "I was upset. I shouldn't have called you Fatso." He replied "No, you see, I'm Stewart."

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