A Portrait Of The Rose Thief As An Elderly Black Man.

This may be the final lesson he teaches me: never buy flowers for a married woman who is not your wife…even if it is your mother.

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It was the day before Valentine's Day, and I called my father to brag that I got his wife, my mom, two dozen red roses. I told him they were going to be delivered tomorrow. I was flying to Arizona the day after Valentine's Day. I wanted to…