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 is for the person with whom to marry and to have children.

This is what every living creature does. Even the plants seem to do this. Only the plants do not look for the plant that is to become the mother or the father of baby plants. They seem to be looking for the breezes and for the butterflies and the bees and the insects that carry the pollen from flower to flower.

That is why the spring and the summer are so beautiful. The blossoms and the flowers are blooming in bright colors and are sending out sweet perfume as if to make the bees and the moths and other flying creatures want to visit them. The yellow evening primrose and the lily with its pure white petals seem to be inviting the moths. The red rose and the white rose seem to be inviting the bees. The flowers in the garden and the wild flowers in the wood are dressed in pink, in blue, in purple, and in white as if to welcome the tiny visitors who carry the pollen from flower to flower.

It is when the eggs are ready for the pollen and the pollen is ready for the eggs that the flowers must be especially attractive to the