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If only these houseplants could talk.
It’s easy to imagine they’d be screaming their indignation at the wintertime perches we’ve assigned them — places of painfully low light near some drafty window — in the inhospitable arid zone that is indoor heating season.
“Enough, I’m begging you!” And: “Get me out of here!”
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