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Mushrooms
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57 Mushrooms Given the little I know about mushrooms, I never should have soaked and sautéed and eaten the three yellow morels I picked roadside last May. With spores in the pits of their honeycombed heads they had the brainy appearance I trusted. Twice, in the same remote spot in the woods, my friend locates a clustered mass of graybrown caps—choice Hen of the Woods—beneath leaves. At eighty-eight, a lover of telling false from true, she crouches to rub the spoonshaped caps, to confirm her sense of things. ...