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Returning to the Red Cup: Same Burrito, Different Life

11:31 AM EST on January 27, 2026

Every so often, I have a ritualized reunion with the Red Cup – a vegetarian café at 3122 N. Classen Blvd. that has quietly been there for me through several versions of my life.

I ate there as a lonely academic, a broke writer, an unemployed OKC lifer, and, more recently, as a man trying to put himself back together after a series of strokes.