Posts tagged “sarah robert”

  1. If you’d asked me a couple of years ago how I thought I was going to die, I would have thought you were a morbid weirdo, but I would’ve answered, “Car crash, probably. Or cancer. Old age, if I’m lucky.” Now I think I’m probably going to get killed by a cashew.

    As you age, allergies can sometimes get milder. Or, if you’re unlucky, they get worse with repeated

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  2. Our nut allergy correspondent, Sarah Robert, presents a sad update to her ongoing coverage of nuts she's accidentally eaten. Get it together, Sarah's mom! (Joke, Sarah is not actually mad at her, she just wants her to feel a little guilty.) Also, it obviously was not a Ferrero Rocher, she knows those are forbidden to her. A couple of weeks ago, there was a large construction site fire near my home. I was forced…

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  3. Walnut, Age 2. My first encounter with a nut was at age two. One of my father’s colleagues was throwing a party at his house. It was a swanky affair, where the children were segregated from the adults and made to stay outside and be neither heard nor seen. These being simpler times, before children like me ruined nuts for everyone else, I was given some fancy-ass dessert with walnuts in it. I ate it…

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