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A Recipe for Okra

Grieving a dead parent from afar

Image created with DALL-E2: “A plate full of cooked okra in the style of Van Gogh.”

I found myself staring at a plate of cooked okra slices the Sunday after a crazy week at work. I was having lunch at my coworker’s house in Fort Worth, and the last thing I expected was slow-cooked, gooey okra, looking uncomfortably similar to the kind my mother used to make when I was a child. But my brown mother had cooked me okra back in…