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“It’s the tur a study about curcumin’s ability to impair fear responses and treat sy with the yelloder In classic fashion, Americans have since tried to stuff into pill forest “That’s why you’re so chilled out”

We each earn just enough I could have ht to live in this country revoked My country ht to a relationship, but her country does not Despite our shared happiness, due to powers beyond our own, our relationship is also insecure

I kno unpredictable the future is I kno quickly relationships can warp And I know, too, despite all of this, how funda us on this earth

She and I know full well the impermanence of built constructions We choose to build family with each other, anyway Perhaps just as the sacred and the profane coexist, so, too, does innocence and wide-eyed perception of the world

8 LINEAGES OF FOOD

My cooking tendencies reflect my own muddled roots No one style of food predominates, because that wasn’t hoas raised

One day last fall, I stopped by rocery store Since I lived in a rural location, Lafayette, Indiana, I didn’t knohat to expect I kneanted a wide array of spices—cuer, and more

Onturns, I found the tiny market, which offered

little in the way of consuht that revealed all the scratches and dinged walls The coerator was askew The metal shelves and all displays were eanized boxes and bags of dry goods and cleaning supplies

“Co me out onto the sidewalk as I turned and walked out the door “We’ll be stocked then”

I nodded, though I didn’t think I would return

“Where are you from?” he asked

“My parents are Korean,” I told him I knehat he really meant

“Ah, Korean,” he said “Come back next week”

I carocery store in the first place because I’d ood cook I’d answered her question honestly, without thinking too deeply about it