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July 14, 2004
roses are red, violets are blue...
today i got flowers. yes that’s right, big beautiful red roses, 6 of them to be exact. they came from rob acker who is just wonderful. he is a great kid from work. they (he and some of his high school friends) gave them to me for helping out with their new movie for the ames high film festival, watch out hollywood here i come! yea right. anywho, no big deal but i had to admit just how very much fun getting them was. the truth is there is something utterly wonderful about getting flowers (though roses are not my favorite) and now our dinning room table is gorgeous! the little things in life are the best.
my favorite time i ever got flowers was last summer; one of my boys at Maryville gave me some he picked while at a park. He was this tough seventeen year-old black kid who caused a lot of trouble and drove me crazy. i had gone through most of the summer unable to really bond with him until this one day we had the task of getting fencing tied up and off a truck trailer that happened to be home to several bee nests. (we will note i am TERRIFIED of bees) he was also slightly frightened of the bees. well i pulled this tough girl attitude and told him we had to do it, so to suck it up and get in the truck. if i could do it, he could do it. some of the other boys were too afraid and wouldn’t do it, so it ended up just being me and him together for a long day of being hot, tired and scared in this box working hard with the bees. we laughed a lot at ourselves and at the other boys. after that, he was cool with me. one of the last days of the summer, he just hands me flowers before we get in the van. says "saw these, thought they were nice, so here." oh the mush i was inside.
Posted by Emily at July 14, 2004 03:02 PM
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It's my new favourite Emily story.
Posted by: Heather at July 14, 2004 04:57 PM
i might be mush just reading this.
Posted by: Angie at July 15, 2004 09:53 AM