![]() She soon had created a small heart fashioned of strawberries. ![]() Working slowly and deliberately, she transferred the luscious fruits to the board, placing them in a pattern. Removing one, she placed it on the cutting board. She uncovered the baskets of strawberries that she had gathered that morning. ![]() As the water warmed, she carved a small heart on to a beeswax candle, placed it in a pewter holder on the kitchen table, and lit its wick. She returned to her house and placed the heavy cauldron directly over the fire, positioning its three long legs evenly around the blaze. Once they'd sprung into flickering life, she stepped outside to pump water into the old iron pot. The woman bent over the stone hearth, adding twisted branches to the embers that glowed behind the andirons. ![]()
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