MINJEE: I only want some fruit.
SMUGGLER: Fruit?
MINJEE: Yes: a persimmon. Ummm, do you smell it? So sweet. It’s the only persimmon left in the whole country.
You For Me For You, scene 23
1.) To learn all about the persimmon fruit, check out our friends over at Wikipedia.
2.) There is also an old Korean Folk tale called The Tiger and the Dried Persimmons, which can be read at Pitara.com.
3.) Li-Young Lee, a Chinese American poet has a poem entitled Persimmons which may be read at the PoetryFoundation.org website.
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