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Syringa vulgaris - First Love (May 2021)

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[The viewer can see a woman dressed in a long khaki skirt and a cream shirt with ruffles, the outfit adorned with a brown apron. She is watering different plants around a room, the video being sped up as she changes the water of vases bigger than her torso. The video cuts to a short scene of the front of a flower shop with a loopy cursive added one top. The words read "Une semaine en tant que fleuriste et 1er mai" ("A week as a florist and May 1st")]

Weekly vlog S1e17: A week as a florist and May 1st

@/Mirabelle Desmarais
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17th vlog of the year! And we still haven't missed one :) ...Show more

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@/Milliesplace
i love the way this is edited :) keep up the good work Mirabelle

@/deadinsid3
i'd love to be in Monaco to buy flowers from you

@/tiredhighsoolstudent
how old are you? i feel like you're so successful already and i'm lacking

@/danielisthebest
I'm in Monaco next week! I hope i can see you

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Monaco (03/05/2021)

The weeks leading up to mother's day are always busy for flower shops, and Mirabelle knows this well. This year is her first year having her own shop, but she's been employed in a flower shop for about two years after getting her vocational baccalauréat in horticulture.

She knows how to operate a flower shop; running her business into the ground before it can fly is not in her ten-year plan. That's why this year, for the first Mother's Day of her shop, she's going to do great. Or at least that's the mantra she's been repeating every hour for a few days.

She's been living in Monaco for the past two years, so she can't call herself a local yet. She has her own flat, and she pays her own bills (to the French government, to her great disappointment; what she wouldn't do to get tax exemptions like most people living in Monaco...).

Her flat is situated near the French border, but you could say that most streets in Monaco are near the border, unless you want to live in the Mediterranean Sea. And while Mirabelle thinks fish are cute in their own way, she doesn't think that she'd like to spend the rest of her days underwater, eating algae. And Mirabelle has always preferred Barbie: Fairytopia to Barbie in a Mermaid Tale.

The view from her flat is amazing, because she lives on the highest floor of the building. Not a penthouse, but a flat under the roof, she says. She managed to get it for a reduced price because of the state it was in when she bought it. Still, what she owes the bank haunts her in her dreams. One more reason for Mother's Day this year to be a success. Monaco is home to a lot of foreigners (as she is); and so deals for the celebration can run during more than a week. For Monaco-natives, or Monégasques, as they like to insist upon, Mother's day is May 30th this year. For French people like Mirabelle and her mother; Marie, it will be on the same day. But she knows that there are a lot of Italians coming to Monaco during the month of May, following the Grand Prix, and so the day of the celebration will be on May 9th. Which is less than a week away.

Today is Monday. This means that she has six days left to prepare for the rush and to write down orders. And rich people always want exotic flowers or flowers that don't bloom during the spring for Mother's Day. Which, fair. If she had that kind of money, Mirabelle would decorate all year around with lilac or hibiscus. Unfortunately, she cannot, and her flat is already filled to the brim with potted plants anyways. Maybe she could try and grow wisteria.