A Bouquet of Dreams (A YEAR OF FLOWERS #2) by Suzanne Woods Fisher EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Suzanne Woods Fisher
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Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.
—Shannon Mullen
On Sunday nights, Claire Murphy often thought of that old adage about
knowing whether you’d chosen the right career by how you felt as you
faced the coming week. For her, there was nothing more exciting than the
prospect of walking into the flower shop on Monday morning, breathing in
that beautiful clean air, putting on her apron, and getting to work with her
beloved clippers. Flowers were more than a career choice for Claire—they
were her passion.
And that was the very reason she didn’t understand why her employer at
Same Day Delivery had insisted that she attend a conference on customer
service training. On her twenty-fifth birthday, of all days! MaryBeth did
apologize to her for the unfortunate timing. “Sweet pea,” she’d said, “you’ll
have plenty of other birthdays.”
True, hopefully true. But Claire’s twenty-fifth birthday was a day she’d
looked forward to all her life. It was a target, a bull’s-eye for her big life
plans to land on.
Instead of celebrating the way Claire had planned, the way she should
have, the way most twenty-five-year-olds would have, she would be indoors
in a lame hotel at that mind-numbingly boring conference. And all because
MaryBeth thought she didn’t have what she called “the magic touch.”
Claire didn’t even know what that meant. She was direct. She was
straightforward. She was candid. She looked for every opportunity to share
her love and knowledge of flowers. And she was always willing to go that
extra mile to help a customer. Take last Saturday as an example.
Claire had been in the workshop, putting the finishing touches on a pavé
bouquet. She leaned back to look at it. Perfect. How could it not be? She’d
made hundreds of these little bouquets—a crowded, contrived arrangement
of stick-straight stem flowers, all in a uniform color, devoid of any
personality. As dull as packed fruit. How many times had she begged
MaryBeth to let her experiment with different shapes and sizes, unusual
florals and faunas, to give customers a wide choice of options? Too many to
count. Innovation was not part of Same Day Delivery.
Anyhoo, as she put the bouquet into the cooler, Mr. Wilson came in and
asked Claire to make something really special. All that remained in the
cooler were the day’s remainder flowers, but he said he didn’t mind at all.
Then he told Claire that it was his fiftieth wedding anniversary and he
wanted to bring flowers home to his wife.
“Did you know,” Claire said as she pulled buckets from the cooler, “that
only six percent of married couples make it to their fiftieth anniversary?”
Mr. Wilson looked at his watch. “How long is this going to take?”
That should’ve tipped Claire off, added to the fact that he had come to
the shop five minutes before closing time. Alas, at that moment her mind
was completely focused on the flowers, and the occasion.
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