I’ve largely recovered, thank you—-although there continue to be lingering repercussions. (It wasn’t COVID, but quarantine stresses, plus negligent self-care following my second Moderna shot, proved the cue for all my preexisting conditions to throw a house party.)

(Up to that point, I’d dismissed my in-law’s restrictive food tastes as standard operational Middle American food provincialism (see LW #3’s husband and son’s apparent belief that only two bird species are edible.)