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“It used to be a priority. Food, I mean.” I thought back to childhood meals with my family, it being one of the few occasions the cease-fire in the constant sibling bickering and horseplay meant we could all relax and enjoy each others’ company. Homesickness stirred, an old familiar pain, and I squelched it. I also recognized a rebuke when I heard it and dutifully picked up the bowl. And knowing full well how it would look, damage already done, I took up the spoon and downed a bite anyway. My eyebrows lifted in surprise.<br> | “It used to be a priority. Food, I mean.” I thought back to childhood meals with my family, it being one of the few occasions the cease-fire in the constant sibling bickering and horseplay meant we could all relax and enjoy each others’ company. Homesickness stirred, an old familiar pain, and I squelched it. I also recognized a rebuke when I heard it and dutifully picked up the bowl. And knowing full well how it would look, damage already done, I took up the spoon and downed a bite anyway. My eyebrows lifted in surprise.<br> | ||
“Cinnamon?”<br> | “Cinnamon?”<br> | ||
| − | I took another bite. ''Yup. Cinnamon.'' It added an unexpected fillip to the protein paste | + | I took another bite. ''Yup. Cinnamon.'' It added an unexpected fillip to the protein paste they’d been eating for breakfast and lunch as a way to save the better provisions for dinner, and not for the first time I wondered what Joshua would have become had his life not taken the turn it had. I spooned up several more bites before I realized what I was doing and paused halfway to another, saying, “It’s good cold. And I’m sorry I didn’t think to try it when it was hot.”<br> |
I kept on eating, less to prove my statement and more because having been given a taste my body demanded more of it. When it was gone and the spoon polished, I put it aside and looked up at him.<br> | I kept on eating, less to prove my statement and more because having been given a taste my body demanded more of it. When it was gone and the spoon polished, I put it aside and looked up at him.<br> | ||
“Is there any more? Or did I really fall down the rabbit hole and miss the call for seconds?”<br> | “Is there any more? Or did I really fall down the rabbit hole and miss the call for seconds?”<br> | ||
