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My husband recently gave me flowers. The truth is, he brings me flowers every week (usually on Fridays), but last week was different -- he gave me a bunch of my most favorite flowers, stargazer lilies. For those of you who don't know much about flowers, these beautiful lilies have many shades of pink, and have an extremely strong fragrance, which I happen to love. The lilies also tend to last a long time -- usually more than a week -- because each stem has many buds that open gradually over time. So I've been enjoying the sites and smells emanating from my flowers all week long. But then someone came over who didn't like the lilies' scent at all. This reminded me that not everyone is going to like all of the things that I like. That's the reason why, for example, there are a skizillion perfumes manufactured and marketed every year. When I went perfume shopping for Mother's Day with one of my daughters, we had a difficult time finding a scent that we could both agree that Grandma would like, and perhaps even love. Just like shopping for perfume, or buying flowers, who you choose to be your life partner is a very distinctive, individual process. No one can tell you what to like -- you have check your own "nose" to determine that. Not that I'm comparing people with perfume or flowers; well, not exactly (!). But there's enough similarities in the process where you have to trust your instincts to identify what's right for you. Anything else just wouldn't make scents.
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