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Sep 28, 2024

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Hurricane Helene might not have wrecked you like it wrecked us here in Atlanta, but the energy of the storm undoubtedly has reached your energetic body, and if you're feeling a bit hijacked--like many of us are!--a warm, gooey, oven-warm chocolate chip cookie.

Baking is one of my favorite things to do, and I love passing along tricks and tips I've learned along the way, so I'm including my recipe in this email.

A batch of these bad boys are the perfect accompaniment to a cutesy lil binge of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, my latest Hulu obsession. If you haven't heard by now, this surreality show follows what appear to be several clones of a single Mormon woman in Utah.

I'm not kidding, even their voices are indistinguishable from each other. It's astonishing.

Not just any Mormons, though, because this show follows #MomTok, or mommy influencers on TikTok who collaborate and socialize for clout and brand deals. (No shade that's just literally all their bond is, garments & TikTok) And those Mormons just happen to be...

...soft swingers.

Imagine me, looking like that one Grinch .gif, slowly grinning as nonmonogamy infiltrates normie culture in from of God (literally) and everybody.

I guess we could talk about representation and why this is...not ideal, but frankly we don't see a ton of functional monogamy representation in media, either, so like, does that discussion even go anywhere when we have it in the first place?

I digress.

Eat some cookies. Reply to this email if you use my recipe because I am needy for attention and crave your love. But also because these cookies are bomb and I wanna gush with you about the tastiness.

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