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     I am three years old, and waiting in the lobby of the hospital for a doctor’s appointment. The memory is hazy and dreamlike, with swirls of white at the edges, but I clearly remember sitting at one of those play tables for children, with the colored beads that run along wires and make that excellent whirring sound and then clink clink clink as they hit the bottom with a little boy I will call Jacob. Jacob is also here for an appointment, and his mother is sitting behind the play table, watching her son pushing Thomas the Tank along the wooden track that runs around the edge of the table, and slamming the caboose and steam engine against each other. My father is standing less than six feet away from me at the check-in desk, just outside the little square of chairs that section off the play table from the rest of the waiting area, his back turned. I slide the beads along the red wire, and then the blue. Jacob leaves the trains to help me push all the beads to one side of the table. His mother beckons him to her, and hands him a red packet of something.

     “Abigail!” I look up. The green pebble-candy is hard to chew, so I am smacking my jaw to get it stuck from my back teeth where it has lodged itself. It tastes sweet and sour at the same time. My father stares momentarily in horror, drops the clipboard he has been holding, and vaults over the waiting room chairs. The next thing I know, his cupped hand is being held to my mouth. 

     “Be sure to share one with your friend,” she tells Jacob. Jacob’s chubby palm hands me something green and shaped like a pebble. Like all good three-year-olds, I promptly put it in my mouth, and bite down.

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     The green Skittle story is not one that is fondly recalled in my family, especially for my father, who sees it as some kind of failure in the line of parental duty—one of those near-misses where something awful could have happened, but thankfully never came to fruition. My mother holds it as testament to the fact that danger, for the food-allergic child, is always lurking, even in the fat fingers of a three-year-old playing with trains. To Jacob’s innocent mother, I was a cute toddler with a sweet tooth, and the Skittle was simply a friendly gesture meant to teach sharing to her young son. To my father, who had spent the past two and a half years after the birth of his first child in emergency rooms, doctors’ clinics, and surgical waiting rooms, the Skittle was a potential hand-grenade.

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