She talked about how the girl who received it glowed with exuberance when he tied the corsage to her wrist.
Every Southern woman has a special memory that involves a corsage.
And my coworker's story jogged the memory of a special flower I received Homecoming day of my senior year. My Homecoming came a little more than a year after Hernando schools integrated in 1970. School spirit was somehow lost in the merge. School administrators were so worried about possible fights that they stopped all schoolwide spirit events. By my sophomore year, my classmates and I decided we had to do something.