His Sins Against Mangoes Went Unpunished

Kyla Pearson
4 min readJan 18

A Short Memoir Immortalizing his Crimes Against a Beloved, Innocent Fruit

A watercolour painting of a mango, with one slice in the front.
Ann Lukashenko — stock.adobe.com

“Are you coming in or do you want to wait in the truck?”

My dad asked before running into the store with his s/o at the time.

“I’ll wait in the truck,” I replied. My brother and her son also stayed back with me.

Kyla Pearson

An Italian-Canadian Creative Entrepreneur who offers creative design & marketing services in country music, film & TV. Writing memoirs about growing up Italian.