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Real Name: Marianne Due Jensen Gender: female Date of Birth: September 01, 1965 Member Since: June 11, 2008 Last Signed In: January 04, 2009 Profile Views: 66 Blog Views: 264 Earthquake in peaceful Denmark Friends and roses June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 
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Friends and roses
It is summer in Denmark. The roses in my garden are blooming, and the scent of the beautiful flowers will fill the air especially in the charasteristic nordic evenings where the light of the sun disapers around 10 pm. I have a lot of different roses in my garden. A row of pale pink ones, which are old roses probably as old as my house from 1924. I have a purple wild rose from my parents garden. Some white ones I got at my 40th birthday and they are now climbing in an arch at the entrance to the garden and soon I will plant some charity-roses from the organization Zonta and support womens life and indepence around the world, but there is one rose in my garden, which is a daily joy and pleasure. It is yellow with red an pink shade colours too and its scent is so powerfull that you will have to stop and just inhale it whenever you pass.
Some years ago when I turned 35, i invited all the women who had crossed my why to celebrate my birthday with a brunch-party. I was surrounded with family, friends from my early schooldays, from highschool and the Danish School of Journalism, collegues and some of the new friends who comes with motherhood: Mothers of children at the same age as my own, and one of those new friends brought me this present, a little roseplant in a pot.
“This is a very lovely climbing rose”, she told me and I placed it in a corner of my courtyard.
And she was right. The rose has grown big and beatiful and every summer the sight and scent of it will remind me of one of the best birthday-partys in my life and of a good friend.
So thank you very much, Salli-Ann, for a rose and a friendship.
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posted by
dweaver3
on Jul 8, 2008 at 03:00 PM
Marianne! What a lovely way to commemorate your friendships - truly a gift with many returns! It must be heavenly to walk by and smell your roses. posted by
Jayh1
on Jul 2, 2008 at 05:57 PM
Your roses look beautiful!! posted by
sunnica
on Jun 27, 2008 at 06:35 AM
Marianne, that climbing rose IS beautiful... and it has done well in these few years since your 35th birthday. I am interested in your summers. How hot is it now, and how cool does it get when the sun finally goes down at 10 p.m.? I think it's good to look at your roses and think of friends, because friends ARE the roses in our lives!
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