One day she was Marlene Dietrich in a silver sheath, the next Joan Collins in a deep blue gown, the next Carmen Miranda, in nine-inch platform shoes and with three tons of fruit on her head.
He would bring her flowers, or fruit from the orchard, and when it became clear that they were serious about each other he had created a long-running joke about their having identical tattoos: hearts, roses, Celtic knots, tiny bluebirds tucked away in the secret angles of their bodies, where only they could see.
Her best cure against flagging energy is fresh fruit and vegetables that she keeps in her office.
Maggie Pietila, an accountant for a Seattle cellphone company, says pressure from colleagues led her and 19 co-workers last year to go on a crash diet of fruit and vegetables that left her sick and shaky.
At her cottage on the river Cam she grew fruit and vegetables and had cats for company, and bees provided by her sister.
Now her company, The Soft Serve Fruit Company, has since opened a flagship store near Union Square and a pop up store in the Hamptons.
She called a friend there, who graciously invited her and her fellow scouts into the kitchen for a meal of fruit, chips and chicken pockets (chunks of meat wrapped in hot pastry).
Shenyang Daily recounts how her last microblog entry on Monday showed a photo of bread and fruit and the message, "My wonderful breakfast".
Her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, was published in 1985 when she was 25.
The story that as a teenager she sold fruit on the docks of Lisbon, capturing the hearts of her customers with her singing, was willingly believed by those who adored her.
The familiar carrier bag hung on her wrist, containing one or two but never more than three pieces of fruit, the round forms pressing against the plastic.
And according to Ms. Gallo, her family's company would introduce even more Moscato if it could find enough fruit.
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Two years ago, she began experimenting with unusual fruit trees and bushes, planting them along three terrace levels in front of her house.
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