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Give flowers zip with cut near blossom
Today's time- and money-saving tips submitted by your fellow readers are sure to prompt the same reaction from you as they did from me: "Wow, what a great idea!" In fact, I can't wait to get a bouquet of flowers just so I can "recycle" them for another go-round of enjoyment. Read on. Second life for flowers: When your cut flowers begin to droop, give them a second life by cutting the stems off near the blossoms and floating them in a bowl with warm water into which you have mixed a crushed half of an aspirin tablet. --Kelly S., Washington .
Good Deeds | Everyday actions that inspire us
A resident at Arden Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Seattle surprised the entire staff and many residents as well. He bought a dozen long-stem roses for each of the nursing stations and for the therapy department. He found out how many women were on the schedule and bought all of them beautiful rose corsages. He also bought doughnuts and cookies for staff and residents. And to an older-than-90 woman, he sent a monstrous bouquet of the most beautiful roses. To watch her eyes light up and hands tremble as she opened the Valentine "from your secret admirer" was absolutely touching. All the staff throughout the day went to her room to admire her roses and see her smile. He addressed all the cards "from a friend." I just wanted to thank this friend for giving so many an everlasting Valentine memory.
Obituaries in the news
PARIS — Lucie Aubrac, a hero of the French Resistance who helped free her husband from the Gestapo and whose dramatic life story became a hit film, died Wednesday. She was 94. Aubrac, whose maiden name was Lucie Bernard, died in a hospital in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, where she had spent the last two months, said her daughter, Catherine Vallade. Born on June 29, 1912, in the eastern city of Macon, Aubrac was a history and geography teacher when she and her husband, engineer Raymond Samuel, helped create Liberation-Sud, or Liberation-South. Liberation-South was one of the first networks set up by the Resistance, a French movement to continue warfare against Germany after France's 1940 defeat in World War II. It linked civilians and armed bands of partisans working secretly to oppose the Nazi occupation of France.
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