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It was the 19th of March at around 9:00pm when you came up by the door with a stem of Rosa kordesii. It was my very first time to have one from my first (and hoping to be the last) BF. It was an unimaginable womanly feeling.



I intended to have the moment like frozen by saving the green-ness and red-ness by dipping the stem in a bottle of water. Soon though as expected, it would soon lose its life. I would be saving the unfurled petals and press them within pages of books. When totally dried up, I would keep them in a special case.

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