wow it's really hard to concentrate...

The closer I get to the finish line the more I want to stop and appreciate the roses.

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roses are a pretty cool little flower.

Although they are quite cliched, they still manage to avoid being completely stripped of real meaning.

We tend to think of roses as individual units although they grow as thick and thorny bushes.

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I'm sure I could make a metaphor here, but I just realized I'm procrastinating again. bah.