"Mama! What are you doing?" I toddled over to the crouched figure of my mother, eager to find out what had drawn her to the fertile soil of our backyard garden. In her native farmer's dialect, my mother explained, "Here is a vegetable growing out of the ground." She grabbed a seed from a small jar. "When you put this seed into the ground and water it, it'll become a vegetable like this one. Isn't it amazing that life can...

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