Crime & Punishment!
 
It all started SO innocently.  A young woman:     And her banana:    This past fine Saturday morning, the young woman had taken the banana and placed it lying sideways on her dining room table, on top of a Laurel Burch place-mat, intending to eat it for her healthy mid-morning snack, along with a nice, fresh cup of coffee.   Of course, the innocent young banana had no way of knowing the fate awaiting it.  But it is a fate common to many such bananas in today's world.  And the young woman was known to be a kind person - she wouldn't wish the unwitting fruit to suffer needlessly.  No, no, no.  Its demise would be as quick and painless as possible.  No one need suffer - least of all, the banana.   But life takes mysterious turns.  Look the other way, become even slightly distracted, go into another room for only a few minutes - even LESS  than a few minutes - and in such a short space of time, whole lives can alter irretrievably, irrevocably ... irreparab...