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There he saw them, hidden plainly somewhere amidst buckets of colourful carnations, glinting deeply, bruisedly red in the harsh overhead lighting. Deep love. Admiration. “My heart aches for you.” He gingerly picked one up and turned it between his fingers as something he had kept carefully caged for years abruptly stirred to life. It insistently clawed at his ribcage, threatening to clog up his scratchy throat and spill over all at once, right here, mid-sentence in a stranger’s story. He wondered, quietly, desperately, if one were to choke up and rip out their warm, still beating heart, then hold it up between their palms as an offering for their beloved, would they bleed this colour. This same, stupid maroon, the one that flower language had never even bothered to call anything else, because it was obvious what it inevitably represented. - Or: olisiala flower shop au that no one asked for.

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