La vie en Rose

I bought this and I had wanted to gift it.

But he said, he hardly write anything down these days.

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'To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important that all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is for her that I've killed the caterpillars (except the two or three we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasred, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose'

- he quoted

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