She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxin — Sarah Dessen, That Summer
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She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

— Sarah Dessen, That Summer
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