Of ants and pits.

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Many years ago, when I was still a child and lived with my parents, my mom bought a huge sac of sugar to make apricot jam from a tree she had in the backyard. But she didn´t put it in a good place but left it in a store room out. And some ants decided to make their home there. I thought that she´d throw it away but they were over 80 pounds. And she decided to make the jam with the ants included. At first I thought it was grosse but the jamm did not have any different taste so we got used to it. Now, 60 and some years later, I decided to make my plum jam with the peels and the pits. I was not going to be standing in the kitchen as my feet are again swollen. I put the washed plums with a little bit of water and I cooked them. After that I added the sugar, stirred and let it simmer. As I have told you, the jam is delicious. You can take the pits out with a fork and a knife or you can do as I do: place it all in my mouth and spit out the pit. Grosse? No. Delicious. And I think that if I had decided to do it in the elegant way, I would finally let the plums rot and throw them away. I have discovered lately that I can only do as much as my body lets me. Besides, if I ever want to invite someone to have my plum jam, I can take out a small amount with no pits and place them in small glass containers. When there´s a will, there´s a way.