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Two springs ago, I was invited
to an olive oil tasting.

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I didn't know these
things existed,

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but I have rich friends.

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And this is kind of my
imaginary-- whatever.

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It's called "Paesano."

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"At first, we only
dipped our bread in it.

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And then as we savored
other aromatics,

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we dipped asparagus
and cauliflower.

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Soon, all of it was
starting to become heady.

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We dipped cheeses, we drank
wine and the smokiest liquors.

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The room became dank,
and suddenly, we

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were dipping our fingers
each in succession

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and feeding the savory
oils to one another.

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Boys to girls, girls to boys.

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Old men to younger men, there
was no amount of tasting of one

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another's fingers
that was too much.

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When the lights dimmed,
we took off our ties

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and scarves, and
sometimes raised

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the hems of skirts
and trousers and began

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to smear the amazing
olive oil on our bodies.

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Oh, god, we were creative.

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And we ascribed in
moments the lemon oil

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to each other's
prodigious nipples,

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the organic recipe to the
wide hunks of our abdomens,

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the orange infusions we rubbed
into shoulders and flanks,

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raising the thick woman's skirts
to ensure good fragrant olive

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oil was in their hips.

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Amazingly, no one spoke.

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Or to be truthful, no
one spoke of the oil

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itself, all talk was
of music and movement.

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The brilliant adaptation
of cello and thousand-year

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woodwind to the simplicity
of one clef or another.

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We spoke of one another's
sleek fashion and even

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the continuous
color of our mouths,

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but no one mentioned the
olive oils, which by now, we

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had begun smearing into one
another's fat or taut thighs,

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palm folds noisily applied
to scrotal and cunt.

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Sometimes, there was a moan.

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Sometimes, a caught breath.

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In all the while, the
gracious sommelier

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in the corner of the
room, red haired,

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and the dapper speaking
softly of the tree's old age.

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How they were
generations of his people

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involved in the harvest, the
slow cook, and experiment

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with fire.

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How he had brought
news of their love.

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All the while his thumbs making
slow circles in a woman's back,

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all of us spilled onto
the street marveling

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at the madness of its
simmering perfumes."

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