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Bordo Response

This was a very large section of reading to write only a one to two page response on. I made a bunch of connections with her in her writing. I found when she talked about the little girl asking her mother for her recipe, it is the same way my siblings and I ask our mother how she makes her sweet tea that she has been making from scratch since a little girl. She first made it when her mother had challenged her and her sister to see who can make a better tea. My mother actually lost because her mother loved sweets, and my mothers sister poured about a pound of sugar in hers. But ever since then my mother has been making it. I have actually brought some of it with me to college because it is the greatest thing ever. Many people have asked her to market it her tea with her, but she won’t give out her recipe. She has taught my sister and I how to make it, but its never the same. Another thing that I connected with was the part about how the women are the ones who cook. Because i...

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