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Loved the story! Keep it up 🦅💖🍤🦐

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Loved this story and your memories making of dinner with divorced parents. It made me smile. I remember those days of being a divorced parent and the dinner hour. Those dinners were simple and very precious time spent w/ the kids. Your recipe looks delicious except for the shrimp 😬, I might use tofu.

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Loved your story, as always, Jessica. Maybe our next family wander should be to St. Kitts and Nevis. We can all sing some Hamilton songs along the way.

And I’m going to go back and try that shrimp recipe!

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I will try this recipe soon and let you know what we think.

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Haha! No! But she’d always sing—de lime in de coconut 🥥!

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Love reading memories from people's childhoods. A portal to their soul, kind of. And the shrimp recipe! My sis makes it whenever I am at her house (too rarely) but without the curry. But it is still good!

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And now I’m just thinking to ask: does your sis live in St. Kitts?

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Food memories seem to me a particular portal to the soul! Thanks for reading!

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I thought I did better than that with our meals. But your memory is what is important here. We didn't starve.

I loved seeing that doll on the shelf with your collection. She really is special, like our memories of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Shteyngart has taken some heat for his piece, as you know from the following issue. It is part of the complex issue of understanding the meaning of tourism for those hosts who were so kind to us when we visited.

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Dad, you did great on the daily dinner front, but most importantly you involved me in the making of dinner. I thought that was implied but I should have said it more clearly - making dinner together is the part I remember, and it is the best part of the Doll Dinners! It probably doesn't matter what we are cooking, though maybe it does: I still make BLTs for dinner a lot! Thanks for that recipe, dad!

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