Autumn in the City of Angels
“The book was Care of Tropical Plants. I had found it buried between two larger books: Waterfowl of the American Eastern Seaboard and 70 Years of the Oscar. My mother had an irrational love of hardback coffee table books as decoration. She bought loads of them to stack haphazardly around the place, but I never saw her actually read one. Ten minutes earlier, I’d begun paging through Care of Tropical Plants and a sudden urgency to save the one plant residing in our apartment surged through me.... It made me feel more alive knowing something else depended on me for survival.
Leaving the plant to hopefully flourish in the sunshine, I trotted down the stairs to tackle a project I’d been putting off: reassessing my food situation. I was lucky my dad was a big fan of buying things in bulk: when the Crimson Fever struck, I had two dozen cans of tuna, three boxes of cereal, four containers of frozen English muffins, and so on. I’d been good at rationing so far, but the cabinets were looking frighteningly bare.MoreLess
Leaving the plant to hopefully flourish in the sunshine, I trotted down the stairs to tackle a project I’d been putting off: reassessing my food situation. I was lucky my dad was a big fan of buying things in bulk: when the Crimson Fever struck, I had two dozen cans of tuna, three boxes of cereal, four containers of frozen English muffins, and so on. I’d been good at rationing so far, but the cabinets were looking frighteningly bare.MoreLess
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