Lemons that look like lemons

Lemons that look like lemons
Before I get to our lemons — those nice juicy seedless fuits that wait for our tug … and not the kind that I pick up with gardening gloves after they drop on the ground and splatter — just  a little about blushing mangoes.  And how on the mainland, I gasped at their price and foolishly left them alone… It was my dear pal Yinan, who showed me just what a mango can do.  A while ago, (too long, as far as I’m concerned), I sat close to one of her big bowls, while she expertly sliced a mango and detailed her salad.  Yinan’s salad, like the rest of dinner, not to...
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Sometimes, the best comes first

Sometimes, the best comes first
If we could just have a quick peek at the cards we never touch,  I’m almost positive that our best of anything would be the hardest to find.  It would be someplace waiting.  On top?  Never.  How can the best ever come first — before the rest?  Impossible, incomparable, right?   Let’s stop here. You see my best boss did come first.  Peter Lacey by name.  Peter Lacey was my first boss,  just a couple of weeks after the diploma was all mine. He was exactly twice my age and somehow found stories of my college life as engrossing as the little captions and checked facts that I...
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