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“Redouté, the man who painted these roses, died over a hundred seventy years ago. And the rose bushes that he studied are more than likely no longer living either. But once, somewhere, those roses were in bloom. And once, somewhere, a painter lived. And now, through pieces of paper divorced from the reality of the past, like fantastical flowers that do not exist in our world, these roses bloom.”