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Candice began to cook more often as days turned into weeks. She had to do something to keep her sanity. Cooking was her solace as she tried to heal her broken heart. Her mind kept flashing back to the beautiful memories from her marriage. What made Tobi decide to have an affair? Was she doing something wrong in her marriage? Was she no longer attractive? She had pepper soup boiling on the stove. She remembered the last meal they had together was pepper soup. Was pepper soup the bad luck? It was her mom’s recipe. She enjoyed making pepper soup. In order to take her mind off things, she decided to start selling small bowls of pepper soup, using Facebook and Instagram to advertise. It would keep her busy. She could not afford to take vacation from work, a job she hated so much. Her evenings were lonely, after work, she came home to her empty new apartment. She decided to spend her evenings perfecting the recipe. She switched some ingredients to see how it would taste, and her predictions about the flavors were correct. She started getting messages in her Dm’s asking for plates, and small pans of pepper soup. She was excited. By the end of the week, she had fifty…
