Dear mangoes on Flickr.
“The mangoes were sweet and juicy.
I ate about six, and the yellow mango juice ran down my arms to my elbows and down my mouth to my chin and my shirt was stained.”
- B. Wordsworth, Miguel Street
V.S. Naipaul
(I read Miguel Street was I was 12 years old, and this was my favourite paragraph that years later I went searching to read this very story again.
I think it’s because when I was 12 years old, that’s exactly how I ate mangoes, much to my mother’s dismay - my shirts were always stained
