The Secret Country
"It was a blue onion print, white with blue vines—"

"Thistlelike flowers," Kate interrupted, "like fans, with viny runners"

"Yes," her mother continued patiently, "wild onions, hence the name."

"And you had those glass pots with lids, in the same print, on the coffee table. I remember. There they sit, in all the Easter pictures. When we're wearing our good clothes."

MotherKind
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