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The Way It Goes: Palates that refuse to yield

Not that I wanted to share it with them; I just wanted to see if they would agree to a teeny tiny taste this one time. But like all the other times, they screwed up their faces to express their disgust and gave me an emphatic “no.”

I was enjoying a meal of rice with meat on bone over the weekend and for the umpteenth time, offered our young ones a bit of the marrow from the bone.

Not that I wanted to share it with them; I just wanted to see if they would agree to a teeny tiny taste this one time. But like all the other times, they screwed up their faces to express their disgust and gave me an emphatic “no.”

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