Auden asked me what the blueberries were like in California.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat color are they inside?\u201d<\/p>\n
I had never given it much thought\u200a\u2014 the giant experimental ones I\u00a0ate\u00a0in Oregon were slightly green, and the ones back home on the kitchen table are also kind of green. Their flesh is pale and almost see-through. Not at all blue.<\/p>\n
He tells me about the blueberries in his Oma\u2019s farm, how their flesh is more red than green or white, and how they’re so red that no amount of wiping with your shirt would hide the evidence. Those are the best, he says.<\/p>\n
I believe him. He told me a few other things that he missed from his homeland of Norway, but it\u2019s his love for blueberries that I remember the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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