89. I hadn't known it was her favorite flower.

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I couldn't stop
Myself
From laughing
When I saw my great-grandmother's casket

She was so
Simple
In an elegant way
She married a man who could build her a house

Her soft pink
Coffin
Adorned in taffeta
With over a hundred roses all stuffed around it

"Fitting"

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