Chapter 16 - FOOD
Megan refused shrimp for four years.
No one forced her.
Olivia stopped eating food that had fallen from anything.
Floor.
Table.
Chair.
Even if clean.
Maya said:
“Let them choose.”
So we did.
Michael learned too.
At one supervised dinner, Megan dropped a dinner roll.
She froze.
Michael bent automatically.
Then stopped.
“Want a new one?”
She nodded.
He threw the fallen roll away.
No lecture about waste.
No joke.
Tiny.
Enormous.
At seven Megan asked:
“Did Grandma throw food because we cost money?”
“No.”
“Because trust?”
“No.”
“Why?”
“Because she was angry at me and chose to humiliate you.”
“So money didn’t make her?”
“No.”
Important.
Motive explains pressure.
It does not take responsibility away from people.
At eight, Megan ate shrimp again.
By accident.
A friend’s birthday.
She liked it.
Did not realize until afterward.
May you like
When she told me, she laughed.
Healing sometimes arrives without ceremony.
