Last October, Laurie Halse Anderson was the keynote speaker at the Rutger’s One-On-One conference. As you’d guess, she delivered a funny and insightful speech. What you might not guess is that as she talked, she passed around a bag filled with daffodil bulbs, offering one each to whomever wanted to do a little gardening. Apparently she’d over-estimated her enthusiasm for planting bulbs in the rocky woods surrounding her home (ordering way too many bulbs) and so decided to pass on the burden share the wealth with her fellow writers.
Well, I guess not everyone wanted to take a flaking flower bulb back home on the train, plane, or automobile, and there were leftovers. The bag came around again and I got to select another bulb.
For the math-challenged, that means TWO bulb-cousins to Laurie Halse Anderson’s bulbs FOR ME. Practically making us best friends, right?!
And here they are, on the eve of their big debut:
If they’d hurried up and bloomed already, they could’ve debuted alongside TWISTED.
Tracy Abell 
Oh how exciting! I didn’t take any.. I am not much of a gardener.
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Well, then I got yours! Thank you, Laura!
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Oh how exciting! I didn’t take any.. I am not much of a gardener.
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Yey!
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I can’t wait to see the blooms!
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Yey!
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Well, then I got yours! Thank you, Laura!
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I can’t wait to see the blooms!
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I left mine back in New Jersey with my sister, so it’s great to see yours popping out! And it brings back some good memories of that conference, not least of all getting the chance to meet you. I hope you post photos when they bloom. 🙂
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I was SO excited to see the sprouts pushing through to daylight for that very reason. Good memories of that conference and a feeling of connectedness with LHA and all the other writers there. Like you, Lorraine!
And yes, will definitely post a photo when they bloom.
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I left mine back in New Jersey with my sister, so it’s great to see yours popping out! And it brings back some good memories of that conference, not least of all getting the chance to meet you. I hope you post photos when they bloom. 🙂
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I was SO excited to see the sprouts pushing through to daylight for that very reason. Good memories of that conference and a feeling of connectedness with LHA and all the other writers there. Like you, Lorraine!
And yes, will definitely post a photo when they bloom.
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I was SO excited to see the sprouts pushing through to daylight for that very reason. Good memories of that conference and a feeling of connectedness with LHA and all the other writers there. Like you, Lorraine!
And yes, will definitely post a photo when they bloom.
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