Premium Content Nuts Drive Me Nuts
by Emily Ricklin - October 02, 2005
Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
At a Bat Mitzvah I attended in eighth grade, an encounter with seemingly innocent Japanese cabbage-which I did not know was marinated in peanut oil-produced an unparalleled wrath. Upon putting a mere spoonful into my mouth, I went into anaphylactic shock. This taste of hell enveloped my entire body in quarter-sized welts, sent excruciating pains darting up and down my spine, inflated my eyelids and lips so that I resembled...
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