The unsolicited advice can be exhausting. Loneliness can feel like despair. Remember (and I speak from past experience) there are many like yourself out there.
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Older generations had more charm for these little things of beauty. They would pause and reflect, appreciating the beauty and soulfulness that flowers had to offer.
The past speaks to us in many and oft-surprising ways. So it is with preserved flowers, sent many crescent moons ago by battling soldiers in letters. Those flowers were little bits of life, beauty and hope, transcending the darkness of humanity’s ugliest and most unhinged hours.