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The chickpea circle they bake twice a week next door

The first one I saw was sitting on the counter at Da Osvá, our local pizzeria, like something nobody had finished. A plain circle the color of a low winter sun, crusted and blistered across the top, no cheese, no tomato, no oil slick, no anything, parked between the pizzas where it had no business being.

Da Osvá is next to our front door, close enough th…