Re: [Sansevierias] anyone remember this?

I don=E2=80=99t recall anything like this=E2=80=A6. but I was a young man w=
hen all this went down, and I wuz never into Orchids, so you can understand=
. Not only that, but I have been stranded in a small Illinois farm town cal=
led Jerseyville for this entire Christmas where it has been raining for day=
s now and the corn fields are soaked with standing water covering much of t=
his land which is just beautiful when it is planted in long rows of corn, b=
ut not so much now. Am here with my wife=E2=80=99s sister and her family. D=
onna is an excellent cook which is a good thing and makes the trip easier. =
We=E2=80=99ll be returning home Monday to our home where my children have t=
exted that everything is just soaked and many roads flooded. Donna and her =
husband are getting out of Dodge=E2=80=99 here next week and going to Desti=
n, FL until Mar. 1. We hope to visit them sometime in Feb for a week. Merry=
 Christmas my Sansevierian friends!
Mike

> On Dec 26, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Hermine Stover [email protected]=
 [Sansevierias] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever?mbid=3Dnl_15122=
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> this fellow embezzled a couple or three thousand dollars from some=20
> Sansevieria fanciers, was written up in the New Yorker and was=20
> eventually made into a movie by the Coen brothers. and here is his=20
> story, reprinted from many years ago in The New Yorker. My head=20
> almost imploded when I read this! his plan for getting money was very=20
> well thought out, nothing I would do today, wanted Western Union=20
> money grams and stuff like that. Finally a friend from Texas drove to=20
> Florida and parked in front of his house for several days until he=20
> got part of what we had both ordered.
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