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6.03.2003


it is once again summer (or at least in Atlanta it is)....
there are a few things that have become staples in my last few summers.
1. i have been single
2. i live on a diet of carrots, orange juice, nectarines and tequilla
3. i will spend LOTS of evenings, after work, at the Duplex.

my world has been turned on its head.

I am having to come to terms with my new allergy to nectarines. It started innocently enough last summer. i had a nectarine and my lips started to swell up a little.
I though maybe i didn't wash it well enough and there was something on it that i was reacting to.
I started to buy organic nectarines because i thought if something that was on my fruit could cause THAT reaction, i should stop eating fruit from the regular grocery store.
But alas that was not the case.
so i all but stopped eating nectarines last summer.

I forgot this year.
i had a nectarine margarita to start off my summer in my new house and my mouth started to swell up.
GRRRRRRR
damn it i forgot.
so as part of the grieving process, i thought i should find myself a new fruit to obsess over.
"CHERRIES!!!" i thought (although i have some aesthetic difficulties with the color deviance from my other summer foods)
so i promptly went out at lunch and got myself some cherries.

i ate the cherries, not really forgetting about my old flame, the nectarine, but trying to be present with my new romance.

within 5 minutes my throat started to itch and my mouth swelled up.

GRAWWWWW!!!! MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!

no cherries either.

don't ANYONE suggest bananas. I HATE them.

.: posted by landry 3:02 PM

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