When Life Hands You Lemons, Someone Plans a Party

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Gums, Glass, and a Word with Two Meanings

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Dawn, Dentures, and Double Entendre

I greet the morning with gum-bright bravado—my dentures doze in their cloudy glass, fizzing like a tiny storm. On the stoop, a basket of lemons, yellow as choir robes.

Life says, “Pucker up.” I say, “No—party up.” The list begins:

  • Lemonade, soft cakes, laughs gentle on knees.
  • A banner in loopy cursive: The Lemon Party.
  • Chairs that forgive the spine.

Somewhere on the street, a laugh I don’t recognize clacks like dice in a cup. Party, I remind myself with a grin. A festive one. Right?

What first?