Our mom sends practically everything in the house when we leave after a visit. When the house is full, so is our luggage. Bananas, lemons, tomatoes, onions and whatever there is, apart from her cooked goodies. And no!, we don't have a vegetable garden, those are from her kitchen which she gets from the market.
On my way home after my most recent visit, my sister came to the bus terminal minutes before departure time and handed me a brown paper bag. Inside were a matchbox and a candle (in case the bus blacks out, I guess); a foil-pack of paracetamol (in case I get sick on board); an oreo and half the contents of a biscuit can she got from a relative who came to visit her. I wanted to cry. Having been confined to her sickbed, those were all she had but she couldn't let me leave without a send-off bag.
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