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You cant make lemonade with just lemons, which has always bothered me about the saying
You need sugar and water, which i suppose could be metaphorically compared to love and self care respectively, but the metaphor never touches on that. Just more pick yourself up by the bootstraps nonsense.
Lemons contain water. I'd assume, being fruit, they probably contain at least some sugar? Thus, if you were willing to tolerate a lot of waste and the effort of extracting those ingredients, and had enough spare lemons, maybe you could make lemonade out of just lemons?
I was thinking the same thing. Distillation is easy enough, extracting the sugar would be trickier but I'm sure it's doable even if you have to cook it down to a glaze and carmelize it. It would be a fun little project.
Try it, im betting it would be unpalatable if not at least unpleasant