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Thomas Patrick-Joseph Hanks posted a condolence
Saturday, June 20, 2015
It hardly seems possible that more than a year has past since the last time I saw my mother alive on earth. Yesterday, I made a spice cake. I hoped that it would taste like the many spice cakes which my mother made when I was a boy. I know that I did not have her recipe. And frankly, I wondered if I would ever taste that taste again. I know it was not her cake; yet, when I bit into its moist and spicy deliciousness, tears filled my eyes. It has been so many years since I tasted one of my mother's home-made cakes, I don't know if it really tasted like hers. But the flavor so attacked my memory that even now, simply writing about it causes my eyes to well with memories. My mother often told her children that she loved them. And she always proved it with her loving care. Baking a cake for them was just one of those ways she proved it. And I miss her.