since living alone

"I learned last summer that if you place a banana and an unripe avocado inside a paper bag, the avocado would—as if spooned to sleep by the crescent-laid banana—ripen overnight. By morning, that pallid shade of green would turn near-neon and velvety, and I, having done nothing but pair the two fruits, would experience a false sense of accomplishment similar to returning a library book or listening to a voicemail.


There is, it’s worth noting, a restorative innocence to waking up and discovering that something has changed overnight."

— Since Living Alone by Durga Chew-Bose at The Hairpin