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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[New York Mets @Mets]

One year ago today.

[Stevie Enzymes @mikniks24]

This gave me actual chills. #LGM

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

NFL friends… We back.

[⚔️WolfCove⚔️ @WolfCove_]

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[Elijah Johnson @elijahxamor]

This might be one of the funniest videos ive ever seen in my life

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

LFG

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

Good to be back…

[Mark Phillips @SupremeDreams_1]

How March madness games be in the last few seconds 😂💀🏀

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

I love talk radio...@TB12sports

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Tom Brady was the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL draft. Which tells me that occasionally, if not often, people assessing your future potential based on past performance don’t know shIt about anything.

[Jules @Julian_Epp]

I’m getting that stimulus check one way or another

[JuJu Smith-Schuster @TeamJuJu]

A lot of headlines this past week and today but these are the ones I really care about. So proud of the work we do at the @JuJuFoundation especially during the holidays in a very difficult year for everyone.

[Special Grade🇯🇲 @princek3v]

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[Stephen Colbert @StephenAtHome]

To be fair, very few words are.

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[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Hi ER Doc here,

I can’t believe this needs to be said but doctors do NOT get more money if somebody dies from COVID.

RT so people don’t believe this made up BS