Chapter 40 Forty

• Anna
• An hour later, Asya and I are busting up laughing while I utterly fail at stuffing the dough for meaty pierogies. I'm either overfilling or rolling the dough too thin, because the membrane keeps breaking no matter how delicately I handle it.
• "You're doing much better than I did when I first learned!" Asya exclaims while watching me struggle with joining the seams of my second attempt. "The trick is being able to measure a balance with your eyes. And better a thick dough than a broken one, yes?"