One day, when I was six years old, I was bragging to my Aunt Rosa that I already knew how to make lemonade. For this, I would grab a glass, fill it with water, add a few tablespoons of sugar, stir it with a teaspoon and that’s it! I was very proud that at such a young age I could already make lemonade. My aunt mentioned something about a lemon, but I didn’t even listen to her, I continued to enjoy my delicious drink. To my little palate, sugar water was the most delicious and anything added to it, including a lemon, could spoil it.

Some years have passed and sometimes I still prepare a lemonade, both at home and at work, especially when I have an urge to drink it to prevent sores in my mouth, or the beginnings of scurvy. But it turns out that at work I only have half an hour for lunch; so to save time, there are times when I just add the lemon juice to a little water and drink it in a hurry.

I mean, before I used to make lemonade without lemon, and now I make it without sugar. “Cómo cambian los tiempos Venancio” (“How times change Venancio”) is a beautiful song by Los Compadres de Cuba, which I invite you to listen to on YouTube.

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