“In our shared meals, my friend will always live,” writes Ifrah F. Ahmed.
and neverending chai from Yemen Cafe one Ramadan evening, the vegan pasta cooked by three girlfriends every Sunday in a Chinatown apartment. Pieces of sourand rice polished off by family members at home. Vibrant and indulgent bites of mango tres leches cake eaten with an old friend in the shade at Gjusta.
The last place you see a person belongs to them. A part of their spirit is always living there. Whenever I return to Saffron, I feel an immediate sense of déjà vu. My eyes instinctively scan to that back booth, expecting to find Halimo waiting there, with food and gossip to share. In these spaces we occupied together, time sits at a standstill. She is still alive, and we are together for a little while.
We are on a meal break in the faculty lounge of the public high school we both worked at in South Seattle, assembling individual snacks like pieces of a puzzle into one big lunch.
Where death takes, grief mutates. Molded to me like a second skin, my grief moved with me as I cooked through the anguish. I returned to the meals we shared as a way to carry myself through the grief. If I could remember how Halimo lived, then the heartbreak of how she died could not consume me.
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