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Mama used to make this dessert when we were kids, lemon bars for the first day of summer vacation. They were like the perfect hit of sweet and tart, the kind that clenched your jaw, and I used to love eating them ice cold. On days when it was really hot, we’d have dinner on the table in the backyard and when we’d cleaned our plates, mama would cut one up for me and Shayla to share. Always nearby in the background, our aunts respun the details of real life, while we waited for the sun to dip and the last fingers of twilight tickled the lightning bugs…
