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Not everyone that is reading FFOSSL was on the email reflector when I sent out the original Story of the Durien Fruit. Someone suggested it be posted again because it's a good story. Plus, it's in line with today's theme of FOOD!!

The Story of the Durien Fruit

Tair, Sonny's surgeon's wife, took Lettie and Hedi to shopping paradise In Lettie’s words:

The bottom level was a Whole Foods on steroids - beautiful fruit and fish and meat and everything; upstairs was a shopping experience that makes everything I have ever seen before pale in comparison - not even the mall in Santa Monica had me floored like this [editor’s comment: and we all know how Lettie likes to shop!]

We bought Sophia some Body butter lip balm and some shea butter lotion for her feet and elbows

We also got her some beautifully wrapped sliced fruit.

Hedi got curious and bought a Durien (the stinkiest fruit in Asia) - we were in shame when we left the package in Tair's trunk while we had lunch - it was so stinky

Hedi tried to hide the Durien in a double bag and take it into ICU. I was mortified, “They'll kick us out”, I said. “Only if the catch us,” she said.

We made it to the cab home and the driver stopped in the middle of the street and demanded we hand over the Durien so he could stick it in the trunk.

We now have it stashed in the room fridge and it stinks SOOOOOOO bad.

The moral of the Durien fruit story: never haul a piece of Durien around with you while travelling in Asia!!