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You can smell the butter before the first tray even leaves the oven.
It’s the kind of memory that lives in your bones.
You can close your eyes and step into whenever the world feels too loud.

Every Christmas, my grandma made what sugar cookies.
They were really more like whispers of butter.
The cookies were so thin, the light shone through them.
The dough was finicky — magic always is —
and had to stay cold, tucked into the fridge between batches.
If it warmed even a little, the spell would break,
and the cutters would cling instead of gliding clean.

There were bells dusted in pink sugar,
Christmas trees dressed in green,
and stars kissed in yellow.
Later, when her hands grew tired,
she stopped fussing with shapes and cut them into
simple little squares and crooked diamonds,
laughing softly and calling them Jesus blankets.

But no matter how they looked, they were always the same:
buttery, crisp, and just sweet enough to make you close your eyes
and breathe in the moment.
We’d sit around the table with our tea and coffee,
the air sweet and warm,
knowing this was what we waited for all year long.

I still have her recipe, written in her hand —
creases worn soft from time, smudged at the corners.
It’s more than flour and butter,
more than a list of steps and measures.
It’s a little piece of her,
a quiet spell for keeping her close
even now.

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