For once most of the food in the fridge is mine. For months I've been starving because I could only afford one meal a day (if that). Now, I go to the kitchen just to open the fridge and look at how pretty all the food looks arranged on the shelves. After being hungry for so long, I can quite shake the feeling that I'm running out of food. I only have 2 weeks until my EBT card gets more money for the next month but the feeling never quite subsides.
Right now my stomach is grumbling and I'm thinking of all the things in the fridge I can eat. Macaroons or asparagus risotto. Shrimp nuggets or just plain shrimp. Shu Mai, lemongrass spring rolls, chicken curry, pesto cheese and crackers, grapes, strawberries, raspberries...
This time no one said anything about my being on food-stamps, quite the opposite, my aunt bought me pizza and sent me home with food when I went over to her house. Turns out, neither her or her side of the family knew that I could draw or that I'm the least bit artistic. Fashion Jesus wasn't the way I had planned for them to discover it, but Jesus (whichever one you believe in) had other plans.
Time for me to eat something and draw A, which stands for...
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