When my mom moved back to her hometown, she rented a
little room on the same property owned by her friends. I loved it there.
It was a little bohemian enclave. They had fruit trees and it was there that I
learned to love loquats, which are a little fruit similar in flavor to a peach.
There was more seed than there was fruit, but that didn't keep me from
repeatedly eating so many that I made myself sick.
Pat went to high school with my mom, and he and his wife, Jenny lived in the main house. I remember Jen was
particularly excited because she had just bought a blender. She couldn't seem
to stop talking about it, and offered to make us all kinds of delicious
beverages and smoothies.
I decided the only way she’d stop driving us all crazy
over the fucking blender was to steal the blade out of it. I buried it in the
garden underneath the steps of our bungalow.
It turned out I was wrong; stealing the only part that made the blender operable only made Jen talk about the
blender more.
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