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Ali Wentworth: 8 stories from an inside-the-Beltway childhood

From her new memoir 'Ali in Wonderland,' the actress and comedian shares memories of her Washington D.C. upbringing and later life as a wife and mother.

4. Wentworth's summer baking business got a little too successful

By Lillian Bozer

Wentworth and her friend decided to bake cakes as a summer job and sell them. When Wentworth's mother started spreading the word, the cakes grew incredibly popular 鈥 so popular that friends in other cities were putting in orders. But how to send the cakes long distance? "I ended up buying cardboard moving boxes, dropping a cake in, duct-taping it shut, and marching it over to the post office," Wentworth writes. "The socialites from Sacramento or Chicago were too polite to complain about a smashed box full of crumbs."

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