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Michael Corbitt

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Bowed but Unbroken

Nobody believed me. That was their first mistake. It almost became my mistake, too.But can you blame me?You see, as a city flower, I didn’t have the best start in life. Country flowers, when still seedlings, are carried by friendly winds and dropped into green nursery fields with lots of dark, rich soil. There, surrounded by caring plarents and grandplarents, and nourished with lots of sky milk from regular baby showers, they have a mighty start. They send their little dark-brown feet-roots deep enough to stand on their tippy toes and take t...

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