Della thought it meant that you just get your bowl of cherries in life and that's your lot and you eat them one by one and then you die.

Superfat and infinifat women live in bodies that, even in a somewhat fat-positive environment, do not perform fatness in the “right way” either because they are perceived as too large altogether or their shape does not conform to the hourglass or pear ideal of a large and perky bust, small tummy and waist, and thick thighs and bottom.

[…]the fruit-garden, where every tree and walk had a remembrance—those iron links of affection.

in the nick of time