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Weekly Contest #358
I have been trying to grow my own herbs, but they keep dying. Everyone says it’s so easy to grow herbs, but not for me. Sometimes they make it for a little while, tiny leaves reaching for the sky, but soon they dry out and fold over, exasperated by their short lives. I’ve tried everything, I’ve read everything. All the books and the blogs and the apps. I tried different climates, different soils. But nothing works, as if they are insisting not to live. It all started because I went to a friend’s house upstate, and was intoxicated by the smel...
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