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By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. on
November 7, 2024
Gratitude for Medium Friends

“Let’s pick wildflowers,” suggested my friend Debbie a few days after I saw her coming back from a walk. Wild purple bergamot and black-eyed Susans drooped from the side pocket of her purse as she scampered off to salvage them with water in a jelly-jar vase. “I’d love to,” I said, and we made a date to go the following afternoon. Debbie is my nature-loving friend. Her apartment on the seventh floor is an indoor garden, not a manicured one, but a “Debbie creation.”

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