My friend looked at me like I was feral. But my mother came out with a glass of lemonade and offered the girl a leaf. "Try it," she said softly. "It tastes like being alive."
I nodded, not knowing what scurvy was, but feeling suddenly important, as if I had been let in on a secret that the rest of the world had forgotten. tasting mothers bush
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Years later, after my mother had moved to a smaller apartment and the old house was sold, I drove back to see what remained. The bush was still there—more tangled than ever, half-choked by ivy, but alive. I knelt in the damp grass, just as she had taught me, and plucked a single leaf. "It tastes like being alive