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because there was a slightly brown leaf. Then she said one
flower was wilting, so she wanted another deduction for
that. She found enough wrong with it that she only paid
me the 10 cents that I charged for an empty pot. And the
way it was going, she made me feel lucky that she didn’t
charge me to take it off my hands.”
“So, how can she be mad at that?”
“Oh, that’s not what made her mad. What made her
mad was that when she gave the flowers to her mother,
who was in the hospital for a minor surgery, her mother
pretty much disinherited her.”
“Why would she do that?”
“Oh, Old Skin Flint’s mother figured her daughter
was implying something when she found the little card
inside them that said, ‘Rest In Peace’.”
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