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Sally's avatar

Oooh, can't wait to read it!! Re: good tomatoes...I just cut one open today and before I ate it, I made everyone in the house smell it and tried to encourage all to try because it is the most perfect tomato of the season so far. I love fresh farmer's market tomatoes, love food writing, love good writing and therefore love this submission. 😘

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Sheila Callahan's avatar

Sally, thank you so much for reading and commenting. "You gotta smell this tomato." I can picture the scene.

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Doc Lawrence's avatar

Your improvised tomato sandwich is lovely. Thanks for the wonderful story. My mom, a great cook, was a tidiness dictator.

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Sheila Callahan's avatar

Doc, I'm sure my mom would have loved your mom.

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CRV's avatar

Love your story. The bored teen thing reminds me of a story my sister told of her perpetually bored and unimpressed teen at a fancy hotel on the beach where they had just been upgraded to a suite overlooking the ocean within inches of the sand. She could see the internal struggle taking place within her daughter - acknowledge the wonderfulness of the circumstance or feign disinterest. Fortunately she succumbed to joy.

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Sheila Callahan's avatar

Succumb to joy--- yes!

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maureen callahan's avatar

a DELECTABLE piece of writing in every way!

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