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Thirsty? Have some blood.<\/p>\n
Kidding.<\/p>\n
This is fresh beet juice with a half a just-picked lemon squeezed into it, live food for the vampire grandmas.<\/p>\n
Berry Knotwell didn\u2019t eat right for a vampire grandma. She struggled to get fresh kale down. She gagged into her napkin when she tried to eat the snails or raw oysters that the others so loved and pushed on her. She spilled the yogurt soup into the potted plants. And she hated any pickle-probiotic thing. No kimchee, no sauerkraut, none of that disgusting drink made of fermenting mushroom \u201cmothers.\u201d Kombucha\u2014that was it; she couldn\u2019t even remember the word for it she hated it so much. The others made fun of her at first, trying to tease her into trying the delicious living food that they loved. But Berry excused herself and threw up after eating a little mound of steak tartar and a morsel of sashimi.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can you be healthy if you don\u2019t eat living food,\u201d said Ruth Leslie Wright, touching her large ring. \u201cYou\u2019re one of us. You need Life Juice. You\u2019re starving, Berry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a bad gut,\u201d pleaded Berry.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbiotics help. Alive probiotics. You know we have to eat living things.\u201d Ruth-Leslie started to brush the shoulders of Berry\u2019s black jacket. \u201cYou\u2019re losing your hair,\u201d said Ruth-Leslie.<\/p>\n
\u201cBerry, look at me,\u201d said Ruth-Leslie in her imperative tone. \u201cGood intestinal health is imperative for posthumans. You’ll really have problems if you don’t eat right. You’ll blow up like a car airbag or waste away. And Berry\u2014you know about our ancestors who used to suck blood in those horrible frenzies. They were under-nourished–that’s all. If they\u2019d had the right diet, there would have been no crazy Dracula blood drinking. No more vampire brides with sacks of nabbed snack babies. So Berry, you have to eat,\u201d said Ruth Leslie.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look awful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know. I can\u2019t help it. \u201c<\/p>\n
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