That doesn’t make either of you a failure.
9. Serving What You Made
The final step is the hardest: letting others see the result.
Serving something you’ve waited years to prepare is vulnerable. You’re offering proof of time passed. Of change endured. Of risk taken.
You don’t get to control how it’s received.
Some people will say it’s different.
Some will say they preferred the old version.
Some will love it in ways you never expected.
What matters is that it exists—warm, real, and present.
10. The Beauty of the Process
“She’s been frozen since 2020, thawed for a week, and baked for 45 minutes” is not a lament.
It’s a timeline of care.
Each step was necessary. Each step was protective in its own way.
Freezing kept her safe.
Thawing prepared her.
Baking made her whole.
We don’t talk enough about how much effort survival takes—or how much courage it takes to stop surviving and start living again.
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