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Memoir

Making Espresso

flash memoir by Alyssa Witbeck Alexander

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Jun 21, 2023
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The Christmas after Kade and I married, we gifted each other coffee scented candles. We still practiced Mormonism then. But Mormons don’t drink coffee. To do so breaks sacred covenants to follow God. We ripped through the wrapping paper and laughed at the unintended duplicate gift, us both already finding loopholes in our previously fervent faith. Kade …

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