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It was my father who insisted on turning everything into a treat. I remember his showing me how to eat a peach by building a little white mountain of sugar and then dipping the peach into it.
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957), 10.
I know the look of green apples and peaches and pears on the trees, and I know how entertaining they are when they are inside of a person.
Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 217.
I cooked the peaches as you told me, and they swelled to beautiful fleshy halves and tasted quite magic.
The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 471.
A mutual plum is not a plum. I was too respectful to take the pulp and do not like a stone.
The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 455.