Florence is an anti-social florist who seeks to grow
self-sustaining flowers and thus eliminate the need for her coworkers. The
biological difficulties are not easily surmounted. Initially customers don’t
want self-sustaining flowers, because caring for the flowers is one of the
therapeutic benefits of having them in the first place. Then no one will buy
them, largely because they aren’t attractive. Once Florence succeeds, people
become impressed by her and they are nicer to her so she wants them around
more. But the flowers have grown to view her as a mother figure and will
jealously defend her against the threat they perceive in the form of other
people’s involvement with her.
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