She followed the smell of potato pancakes upstairs

One neighbor asked for a pancake. By evening, a basket of fruit had come back.

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Before I got married, I lived alone. I was making potato pancakes when my pregnant downstairs neighbor came up to ask for just one...나 결혼 전에 혼자 살 때 감자전 먹고 싶어서 부치는데 아랫집 임산부가 한장만 줄 수 있냐고 와서...

I invited her in and kept frying more for her. I had chives, so I made chive pancakes too. She ate those right up.들어오라고 해서 내가 계속 부쳐주고 먹임. 부추도 있어서 부추전도 해줬더니 잘 먹음.

She said she’d really been craving savory pancakes. Morning sickness had kept her from eating, but when she smelled these, she thought she could manage them... haha.갑자기 전 종류가 엄청 먹고 싶었다면서 입덧 때문에 못 먹었는데 냄새 맡고 이건 먹을 수 있겠다 싶었다고...ㅎㅎㅎ

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I asked how she’d smelled them. We both had our windows open, and the smell had drifted all through her place. She’d hesitated for ages before coming up.냄새 어떻게 맡은거지? 했더니 나도 그 집도 창문 열어놨는데 냄새가 집 안으로 다 들어왔다면서 한참 망설이다 온거라고~

She must have told her husband, because that evening a whole basket of fruit arrived... lmao.자기 신랑한테 말했는지 저녁에 과일을 한바구니 사옴...ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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💡 From one pancake to a return gift
“Just one” became an invitation inside and a second kind of pancake. The fruit basket closes the loop without either neighbor having arranged a trade.

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