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A Papaya Story
Identity Snapshot
- Era: 2009
- Geography: Taiwanese America
- Core roles: historical work (story; band A)
- Source org: taiwaneseamerican-org]]
Record
- Date: 2009-03-23
- Byline: Jessica
- Original: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2009/03/a-papaya-story/
- Value band: A (A=oral/interview/community history · B=essay/feature · C=creative bib · D=chrome/skip)
- License: all-rights
Article
Cited from the original (source). Echopedia holds this as community historical record.
When my dad was in the military, he served near a mountain covered with farms. There, people planted a lot of mangoes and papayas. But some of the papaya was wild and grew on their own, free.
One day, a man from Taipei looked around and saw a big, red, pretty papaya. It was beautiful and delicious looking. He climbed up the wild tree and fell down because there was a bee nest in the tree. He cried and cried, and was sent to the emergency room. He ended up with a fever for a couple of days and almost died.
If you find somewhere there is something good there — supposedly there is something tricky there too.
Jessica is an avid fruit eater eagerly anticipating the arrival of bamboo shoot season. She would like to picnic in this 73 F weather.
Timeline
- 2009-03-23 — published
Subjects
- Perspectives