"}When I was about 11, my father was listening to NPR in the car and I was the captive audience in the back seat with no choice but to listen. It was some gardening and/or food themed show and the host was talking about how carrots grown in the winter produce more sugar. This is an evolutionary tactic on the carrot\u2019s part to survive harsh conditions. And that was when this man dropped the most banger line I\u2019ve ever heard. \u201cWhen you bite into a carrot and it tastes sweet, that\u2019s the carrot saying \u2018I don\u2019t want to die.\u2019\u201d I was floored, changed as a person forever. This line haunts me. The poetry. The emotion. NPR made me the sappy garden idiot I am today, romanticizing senescence and over analyzing the science behind vegetables.