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Quick PC: "One Perfect Rose"*

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Quick PC:
Group:Sharp Shooters
Swap Coordinator:Nnyla (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Photography  Postcards 
Number of people in swap:3
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Rating requirement:4.95
Last day to signup/drop:September 22, 2012
Date items must be sent by:October 1, 2012
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Are you familiar with Dorothy Parker's humorous poem, "One Perfect Rose" in which she sort of spurns the gift of one perfect rose? Read the poem (below) and then choose ONE of the objects mentioned in the poem to photograph and send the photo to your partner as a postcard. It can even be "one perfect rose!"

Feel free to use a photo from your stash, but it must be your own photo. Print professionally or on photo paper on a high quality photo printer. Adhere to cardstock. Have a little fun and write a note to your swap partner about THE gift you would LOVE to receive from your significant other (other than the single rose). Then, send on its way.

A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet -
One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret;
'My fragile leaves,' it said, 'his heart enclose.'
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.

"One Perfect Rose" photo from: Jackie Brenner Photography. Coincidentally, she also features Parker's poem with her roses. Cool!

*Swap slightly edited to clarify that the gift you wish is from your "life partner" (husband, wife, spousal equivalent, boyfriend, girlfriend), not your swap partner. Now, if my assigned swap partner is in the position to send me a limousine, I'd gladly accept it. ;-)

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