Ask an Adult

I can’t even begin to put words to the complexity of my feelings about Nora turning 18, and even if I could I’m not sure I’d share them here. So I’ll leave you with this.

Last night at birthday sushi dinner, we purchased a round of Ramune, a Japanese soda with a strange marble contraption stopper. To open it, you flip up the little plastic thing and then…. Well, the point is that opening a Ramune bottle is complicated enough that the first bullet point on the caution label says: “Ask an adult to open the bottle for you.” And it occurred to me that that universe now includes Nora.

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  1. In the old days in the UK, apparently, lemonade bottles had marbles as stoppers: the gas pressure kept them in place, you had to push them down to release the pressure. Before my time, sadly. I think kids were supposed to open them, though. But H+S was saner in those days. Happy birthday to Nora.

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