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About the Author: Aster Perkins (they/them) is a third gender writer, pianist, and neuroscience graduate student located in New York City, and have been previously published in The Apothecary, the Mount Sinai creative arts magazine. They can be found on Twitter @endwellian and their other work can be found at virgilsbirds.wordpress.com.
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Image Credit: From Home Vegetable Gardening from A to Z Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & company, (1918) Public Domain. Image Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
As It Ought To Be 