Go to the kitchen. Find the reddest thing in the fridge. Do not prepare it. Do not share it.
The sound was obscene. A crack of seeds, a rush of juice. It ran down my chin before I could catch it. My first instinct was to reach for a napkin—to clean up, to apologize for the mess. But I stopped.
I let the juice dry on my fingers. I closed my eyes. For thirty seconds, there was nothing else in the universe except the texture of that fruit on my tongue, the acid at the back of my throat, and the quiet, radical act of .
For a long time, I ate strawberries wrong.