She doesn’t know how to make her mother’s curry. She only remembers the smell. So she experiments alone at midnight, adding too much ginger, then too little. Tears fall into the pot. She eats it anyway. Cold. In the dark. That’s what growing up tastes like , she thinks.
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It is not a sad note. It is not a happy note. She doesn’t know how to make her mother’s curry