Victorio Communion
Emma Slager, Calvin College Class of 2010
Perspectives
January 2008

I remember sitting on the counter in our kitchen as a little girl watching applesauce ooze out of the little holes of our Victorio strainer's silver cylinder, sliding down the ramp into a waiting pan while the garbage parts--the seeds, peels, and stems--fell out into a separate bowl. I snuck quick tastes of warm, soursweet apple on my finger when no one was looking, and even sometimes when they were.

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