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Baking

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Jen Deaderick
Sep 30, 2025
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My boyfriend is British. Basically. It’s confusing because he’s from Belfast, in Northern Ireland, so he’s also Irish, but he’s Protestant in the way that matters there. Thus, he is British in custom as well as birth.

I thought about it more when I first moved in with him because there’s salad cream in the cupboard. Also, he needed to be taught to make …

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