Short and Sweet: Sugar cane

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Sugar cane

Children are chewing on sugar cane as they have since anyone can remember. Eventually their teeth will rot with sweetness, crumbling like old tombstones. They are only practice teeth, though, and will grow back soon enough. For now, a hacked-off stick of sugar cane is mother's milk, grass-blade dew,... Sign in to see full entry.

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