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Byline: KRYS STEFANSKY THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

TINY BARLOW held a bunch of yellow daffodils in her hand. They weren't real but still looked like spring.

She turned them this way and that, added a wad of fake greenery, checked the effect. Put the greenery back, kept the flowers.

``I'm trying to find something to go in a vase,'' she said as she stood in the silk flower aisle of a Michaels Arts and Crafts store. ``The vase just sits there empty, and I want to put something in it.''

She thought a minute about that ``something.''

``I have no talent at all,'' she said, laughing.

Doesn't matter. The blue vase is on the entertainment center in her living room and ...

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