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Why funeral flowers should be cut flowers

The plant-owner says, in a tired voice: “That was from my wife’s funeral but I’ve managed to keep it alive.”

“Oh my!” I know that the wife died more than four years ago. We both stare at the plant, which is enormous. Which requires watering. Which is still alive.

“It’s been an unexpected burden,” he says, in a surprising moment of honesty.