"It was all over so quickly," she says. "Then we went on honeymoon and all I remember feeling is hollow and exhausted, as if I had been in a fight."

I came upon a shack in an isolated hollow, four miles up a winding mountain road over the Potomac River in West Virginia.

Over the weeks, the limes turn black ordusky brown on the outside and lose so much weight that they feel hollow;inside, the juicy green flesh turns a glossy, maroon-tinged black.