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Personal Narrative: Making Homemade Christmas Cookies

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The minute I took out the recipe book to make the Christmas cookies, I knew it would be a disaster. I had never been good at baking. I couldn’t even use the oven without making the smoke alarms blare. Everything I had ever baked had tasted awful or wasn’t edible. There had been burned brownies, chocolate chip cookies without chocolate chips, and banna bread that never rose. But, for some reason this didn’t stop me from wanting to make homemade Christmas cookies.
I had it all planned out. I took all of the ingredients out and laid them on the counter. I carefully followed the instructions and did everything exactly as it said. I made sure my teaspoons and tablespoons were right. I carefully measured each cup of sugar and flour. I beat the
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