The Death Class: A True Story About Life - Plot & Excerpts
One particular perennial nearly filled an entire truck: small ruby-pink and white petals dangled from each horizontal stem, like charms on a necklace. The plant was known as a bleeding heart. The manager of the garden on campus received so many such flowers in the days after April 16, 2007, that he could not even accept them all. You could still see the bleeding heart in the Hahn Horticulture Garden, where Madame Couture was memorialized and where Norma’s students visited after Jerzy gave them all a tour of Norris Hall’s second floor. It was the kind of flower that Jocelyne Couture-Nowak would have appreciated, given the love of horticulture she shared with her husband, who had spent most of his career researching plant stresses and plants’ reactions to threats of weather, pathogens, and predators. Madame Couture had enjoyed long days planting marigolds and poppies outside the redbrick home with the view of the Blue Ridge Mountains that they had purchased in 2007. They’d lived in the house for only five weeks before launching ambitious landscaping plans, including constructing a screen-covered deck in the backyard, a shed, and a patio; building a gazebo that overlooked the yard; and creating a rock garden.
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