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The florist

Published: December 20, 2007 5:13 AM
 

Julian Calderon is a very busy man. Emerging from a walk-in refrigerator, he's juggling two plastic buckets -- one of deep red roses, another of hydrangeas. He clears a space on a cluttered countertop, and produces a sharp knife, with which he immediately gets to work, trimming back leaves and cutting down stems. With one hand, he retrieves a spherical florist's sponge from the sink, where it's...