It had been sitting on the kitchen counter for over a
week and if no one ate it soon, it would go bad. She had never liked mangoes
that much when she was a little girl, in fact she didn’t like them at all. But
somehow, in her 40s she acquired a liking to them. Perhaps, you needed to have
an acquired taste for mangoes just like sushi. It’s not something that you fall
in love with at first bite.
She walked in the kitchen, looked at the mango and
then checked the cupboards. She looked and looked but nothing wet her taste buds.
She picked up the mango and it was ripe enough to be eaten. She took a knife
and peeled the juicy fruit. The smell took her back to good moments in her
childhood when her sisters would devour this fruit and she could not understand
what they saw in it.
As she bit into the fruit, the juice ran down her
chin. She felt like a little two-year-old eating with so much pleasure, just needed
a bib not to get her clothes dirty. It really didn’t matter at this moment,
what mattered was that that ripe juicy mango was very satisfying and delicious.
With a smile on her face she cleaned up the mess she
had made on the kitchen counter.
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(Written: November 3, 2012)
copyright ©2012 - Todos os direitos reservados a Meire Marion.
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Manga, quando boa, é dos deuses! Acabei de guardar uma na geladeira justamente pra não perder o prazer de devorá-la, rs.
ReplyDeletePois é, a que comi ontem era dos deuses mesmo!
DeleteIt's funny how some people either hate or love mangoes... I can't think of any kind of food I hate eating. Actually, I can eat everythig! A friend of mine always tells me that I had never eaten stones because nobody has ever served me!! LOL
ReplyDeleteAs for the mangoes, they're my favorite fruit - I eat one almost every night...
They have become my favorite also Valter...but when I was younger and my sisters used to eat them with so much passion, I used to walk away just from the smell. Not anymore though....
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