For Patty, who inspires me in the garden and in life. PH For my mother, who passed down her deep love of nature and gardening to me. MF
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Emily Green lived in a perfectly lovely house, in a perfectly lovely street. It was the kind of street where people were always busy and bustling, hurried and hustling.
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Everyone kept their houses nice and neat, their front porches spick-and-span, and the street shipshape.
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Every day, Emily Green and her parents scrubbed and dusted and polished until their whole house sparkled, from top to bottom.
It was perfectly lovely.