Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when w…

Wallace Stegner
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Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. ✨ Wallace Stegner (2000). Angle of Repose, p.43, Penguin
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Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. ✨ Wallace Stegner (2000). Angle of Repose, p.43, Penguin

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