If I close my eyes, I can see my mom's kitchen windows steaming up from the simmering gravy, hear her banging her wooden spoon on the rim of the gravy pot, and smell the meatballs sizzling in olive oil.

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Observing my son, I can recognize the intellectual curiosity inherent in children: What happens if I drop a spoon on the floor?

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But before a new one could be opened my mother would always require that I scraped out what was stuck inside the bottle with a knife or spoon.

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