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Flowers are often given to mark important moments.
They can celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, new relationships, and even funerals. For a short period of time, they often become one of the most meaningful objects in a person’s life.
Yet flowers are also one of the few gifts that almost always have an expiration date. Eventually they begin to wilt or lose their color. At some point, someone decides to throw them away and move on.
What makes discarded flowers interesting is that the reasons they were originally given often disappear with them. A bouquet found in trash could’ve marked an important moment in someone’s life. There is usually no way to know.
The flowers remain, but the story attached to them is often lost.
