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Japanese Cotton Cheesecake 

by Chocolates & Chai

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Damn I’m turning superstitious…usually I disregard these 🤷🏾‍♀️

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'Starring a compact, yet stellar cast, the film is an adaptation of Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel, Strangers. Taking his cues from a classic ghost story, Andrew Haigh weaves in themes of sexuality, gender identity, but most hauntingly of all, I thought, the unbearable loneliness of the human plight.

The extreme isolation of the film’s protagonist(s) becomes apparent from the opening shot, and escalates to jarring levels, almost too much to bear, by the film’s end.

Adam (Andrew Scott) and Harry (Paul Mescal) are the sole residents of a developing resident building. They quietly observe one another from across the gaping maw of several floors which separate them, until a drunken Harry braves the gap, and knocks on Adam’s door.

Though shy and awkward at first, Adam soon begins to answer Harry’s flirtatiousness, and the two embark on a romantic relationship carried out in the night quiet.

“They don’t really want us to jump,” Harry tells Adam on their first night together, glancing out the Adam’s nauseatingly high window. “It’s bad for business.”

Though extremely subtle, it’s one of the key scenes of the film, I thought, because in that moment, these two strangers acknowledge to one another a foundational truth of our shared existence. No one likes to talk out loud about how close they are to jumping, not really. And naturally, jumping becomes a metaphor (mostly). Because although Harry and Adam manage to exist, to get their mail, and go outside in case of a fire drill, they are sinking. They are alone, and nobody cares. Least of all the owners of their building.

That one line reflects the haunting realization that you’re alone, and nobody even cares. So you really got to elbow and scrape your way to make yourself seen...'

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

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Cook this creamy and luscious Mushroom Risotto made just a like a five star restaurant.

https://www.smalltownwoman.com/mushroom-risotto/

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Mini Blueberry Cheesecake

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This easy one skillet Smothered Chicken is comfort food at its best with crisp bacon and creamy seasoned gravy.  Enjoy it over mashed potatoes, with collard greens, and creamed peas.

https://www.smalltownwoman.com/smothered-chicken/

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