Ironic, Betty Lou said at last. The cereus insists on sunlight---that'…

Jerry Spinelli
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Ironic, Betty Lou said at last. The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers. It takes from the day, I said, gives to the night. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2007). Love, Stargirl, p.72, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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