A perennial favorite of Floridians, true key lime pie has a taste unique unto itself - tart and strong at first bite, setting on edge the taste buds but offering a lingering aftertaste that is sweet and pleasant to the palate. Many think of a rich green hues when hearing the word ‘lime’, however, the actual color of this delightful dessert is more of a soft yellow-green – really the identical matching color of our luncheon guest’s snappy eyes, only missing the acute spark that flashes when she smiles. Reunited after a drought of fifteen years, Cynthia and I sat mesmerized in her company as she exuberantly filled in the blanks of the years we had missed – years void of personal observation during which she miraculously transformed from the chrysalis of SarahBooLoveMathewsonTheFirstLarrison into the gorgeous colorful Monarch of SarahLove, whose exterior charm and loveliness is surpassed only by the exquisite power of a pillar of fire churning within her to serve God with her whole being – a rare and charming quality to be found in these turbulent times. As SarahLove bubbled the chronicle of our lost decade-plus, my soul was assaulted by the tart and strong awareness of all that we had missed in watching our lovely butterfly emerge although by the time of our parting of ways, through hugging tears, the awareness that our ‘little princess’ has blossomed into an effervescent young woman of God lingered sweet and pleasant – reminiscent of my Key Lime Pie at The Columbia enjoyed only brief moments before.
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