@Akili i don't eat meat for religious and cultural reasons- i'm not supposed to eat any type of meat for cultural reasons and i'm not supposed to eat beef specifically for religious reasons. speaking of which
i've actually had meat on a couple of occasions

when you talked about not being able to digest certain meats
i have ibs and it was really bad around last year because i couldn't eat any of the college mess/hostel food. i couldn't even take fruit juices (i had an idea liquids would be fine) and i was just eating plain rice a lot of the time. sometimes mashing a banana in the rice if it was being served that day
my friend made me eat chicken when they were serving it. it was cooked in gravy so i said no even though white meats are supposed to be safe by the soluble fiber diet (most of the time, there was nothing available that was safe by that diet, and i couldn't get anything from outside either because we're in the middle of nowhere)
she tore the meat from the inside, near the bones, and made me eat that while she ate the gravy-soaked outside meat. i had that and the rice. and at one point i had fish, idk which kind, and i liked that a lot better. i ate it during my period which is a digestively hypersensitive time and it suited me really well
so that's twice in my life i've eaten meat lmao why have i gone on and on about this
but about that photographer neighbour
i'm so happy for him he's getting married to a guy that'll make sure he takes care of himself aww
