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Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Environmentalist
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Naturalist
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Iowa
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