30th July 2012
Dear Cassi,
Today I learned that one of Pickles’’ favorite
foods is burritos. He told me that burritos are his top pick among all my
cooking. This was some shock to me as I had thought it was pizza as it has been
for most of his life. This came up because I had placed six burritos in his
freezer to serve as meals for him in the coming days and he ate them all by
noon. When I asked him he hit himself on the forehead for being a hog.
As I’m sure I have said, pickles loves food in
general, and eating is one of his most loved pastimes. I recall the time
Pickles was given a few bags of brownies and, even saying they were hard and
ill flavored, kept eating them until he asked me to get them out of the house.
He made himself sick over those three days having eaten almost nothing but
brownies. I gave most of them away. I knew more than a few hungry folks back
then. Now, I have to keep most of the burritos in the front freezers so that he
keeps from eating them all.
Pickles has a name for things he will not stop
eating. He calls them trigger foods. From what I gather this is a technical
term for things that cause a person to eat past fullness. Pickles keeps saying
that he tries to keep those foods out of his refrigerator, but is it that he
cannot control himself or that he will not control himself?
I’m not one to talk but I still believe in
willpower. The last time I had a twenty four pack of soda Pickles was surprised
that I hadn’t drank it all inside a week. Who drinks that much soda in a week?
I think that ‘I couldn’t resist’ is just a group of words he hides behind.
Be the person you wish to meet, little sister
Richard Leland Neal
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