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In plain sight

As my mum Angela, then 44, scraped cake mix from the bowl, I flashed her pleading eyes.

‘Go on then,’ she said, handing me the wooden spoon to lick.

It was 2008 and, aged 5, I loved baking with Mum.

Coconut buns today.

‘My favourite,’ my dad Ian, then 47, said, pinching one as they cooled.

I sniggered as

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