At the Ex-Boyfriend Cafe, Knife Skills

are learned on their own fingertips:

remove the top layer, no blood.

No wasted onions and their thin

membranes connected with slime

like the veil on a bride. How else

to care for another? First find a form

of gentleness with yourself. Learn

how to sense before the nerves

scream. When to pull back.…

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