Preservation

I have an admirer who often gives me roses.  While I love how beautiful they look in a vase on the table, I can't help but feel a bit sad when they begin to droop.  Then I learned if, after a day or so, you remove them from the vase and hang them upside down to dry, they transform themselves into a new kind of beautiful.  Dried roses - the lasting kind.  Then I can just skip that whole sad part!