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But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Strange
Pleasing
Mistake
Planned
Beauty
Imperfect
Beautiful
Flowers
Wells
Arise
Well
Garden
Misadventure
Many
Flower
Tended
Aren
Gardens

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