Groceries are limited here, you can forget about yellow bell peppers, broccolini, ground turkey, whole wheat flour, coffee beans, enchilada sauce, marshmallows and mushrooms. Of the limited supplies, usually there is at least one item not available at all. Once it was eggs. Other unavailable items have been: milk, bananas, orange juice and swiss cheese.
When we first got here I wished I’d brought an egg carton. Now I’m use to buying eggs like this, $6 for thirty at a time, “un plateau.” Always brown, except around Easter when they import a few white ones for coloring, and always with the feathers and all.
twenty-something years of "what have you been up to?" 
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