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By late Tuesday morning when Galen and Mack made their weekly visit, we had already raised four thousand dollars from the flower sale. Mom had begun a press release campaign for the last day’s sale with the hopes we might top seventy-five hundred. Given her enthusiasm – i.e., intense loud-talking and pacing through my shop several times a day – I thought people had probably handed over their cash and thanked people with flowers just to avoid her wrath.
Galen did a video with Marcus about the sale and popped it into his i********: stories and, within minutes, we had even more donations from all over the country. If Mom’s press releases didn’t do it, Galen’s followers would put us over the top.
On Monday, we’d delivered another five hundred flowers, and this morning before work, Daniel
