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CHAPTER NINETEEN
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2024-10-29 19:42:56THE CELEBRATION
May 19, 2021
MADDY
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY FINN AND CHLOE!" We all shouted in glee as we blew the horns and boomed the party poppers.
There are two cakes for each of the birthday celebrants that are placed in the middle of the counter. Chloe’s birthday cake is a two tiered vanilla cake with different flower designs around it. While Finn’s cake is a simple matcha cake with a cherry on top.
Gabby and the others prepared so much food. There are spaghetti, pancit malabon, caldereta, chicken adobo, spring rolls, pork sisig and many more. For dessert, there’s my favorite leche flan that they just ordered, marshmallow hotdogs on sticks for Chloe, and two contain
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