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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...characters are wildly sexual-it is their whole game, what with pistils and stamens and their frank, unblinking, scandalous fertility, and our salacious Italian bees stirring constantly among them, the messengers of love. A soap opera of many seasons goes on and on, starring characters like Blue-bird Violet, Motherwort, Spreading Dogbane, Lady's Thumb, and Spiked Lobelia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Considering the Lillies (and Other Flowers) of the Field | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

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