When I was really leaving the first time going very far away Baba asked me who was going to cook for me and was she so bad that I had to run away like that she asked me whether she didn't make the best cabbage rolls actually she told me she had the only recipe something about rice and bacon made hers better than others who claimed best at the time I reassured her it wasn't because of her I was leaving but it made no difference I had broken her heart and rejected her cooking and turned my back like the worst tragedie grecque and in this case she preferred Euripedes over Sophocles looking back now it seems to me who wouldn't but that was then and this is now when I got where |I was going that time because there were many times until I found a new home base betraying Baboushka utterly when I got there there was a box of frozen cabbage rolls waiting at the address I gave the dry ice was still holding and I was barely hungry having eaten...

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