Sugar Water & Salty Tears On Hot Summer Days
2 min readFeb 4, 2020
“Y’all come on inside a get some of this sugar water! It’s too hot outside and y’all sweating.” My mama would yell over me and my younger sister’s laugher in the backyard.
She would stand on the front porch with one hand on her hip. We both knew we would be thirsty. The faucet water never quenched our thirst enough in the Louisiana summertime heat.
