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A '70s bunny cake as an act of self love

A '70s bunny cake as an act of self love

Notes on: A new Anchorage poke restaurant, pickled beets, marshmallow bunny ears, local seeds, homemade refried beans, a Rothko and strangers with your same name

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A cake that looks like a bunny surrounded by M&Ms.
Making this 1970s bunny carrot cake was not about the children at all (Julia O’Malley)

Google alerts me when my name shows up online so I can tell when my stories publish. This is how an obituary for a woman with my exact same name came zinging out of the ether into my email and shot me in the heart.

“Julia E O’Malley, age 98, of East Greenwich Twp., NJ, …

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