Wallace Stegner quote: Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, ...

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

~ Wallace Stegner ~

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