• Sliced buttermilk poundcake
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    Buttermilk Pound Cake and Why It’s Part of My Grieving Process

    I was 19 when my mom suddenly passed away. One day she didn’t feel well and a week or so later she was gone. I was in the middle of finals in the spring semester of my sophomore year of college. No one wanted to “worry” me so I got the filtered version of events as it was all happening. And then I was too shocked to ask questions. The point is, she left and the grief came. Her wake was on her birthday. And a couple of weeks later I was nearly inconsolable on Mother’s Day. April and May are kind of…not my favorite months. I don’t know if…