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A short story about Melissa, or Melissa officinalis in plant talk

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“A happy childhood is the worst preparation for life.” Kinky Friedman

I suppose she was pretty, although she reminded me of Squeaky Fromme, one of Charles Manson’s girls. Squeaky was denied bail for like the billionth time last week, something I was reading — or would have been — if I hadn’t suddenly felt someone sitting at the end of…