The Return of the Repressed Almond for Me and Serge

"I've noticed that I've been going through an 'almond thing' lately," I told my mom on the phone a couple of weeks ago. We only talk sporadically, and even the most casual conversations are often marked with our vastly different recollections of the years in which I grew up. So when she answered, "Oh, you've always had that 'almond thing,'" it was oddly, comfortingly harmon...