Vegetarian.

Lisa Martens
Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read

He was a vegetarian. The family agreed he was doing it for attention, just to be annoying. They made fried rice with pork. He could eat around the pork. They couldn’t start changing their meals just for him. There were seven kids. What if everyone started asking for special meals? No. He would get fried rice and pork, and so would everyone else. It would all come from the same big pan.

Where had he gotten the idea, anyway? From a tourist, probably. A girl, most likely. A pretty girl had come from somewhere far away and started talking about things that pretty tourist girls did, like request complicated, specialized meals.

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