The Mistress of Spices

the long version

The store has been here for only onde year, but many people think thai it has always been here. Above the door are faded brown letter which say: SPICE BAZAR.I, too, look as if I have always been here. When customers enter, they see an old bent woman with skin the color of sand. The foods in my store remind them os India - the land most of them left behind when they came to America.They don't know the truth about me, of course. They don't know that I'm not really old - that this body is not reall