You Can Smell the Flowers but Don’t Take

I read your article “A Career in Bloom” (Aug. 23) and was impressed by the young woman, Claudia Martinez, until the last paragraph when she said, “A month ago I took two days off and went to Catalina Island, where I stole some flowers from a beautiful garden because I really love them.” Why would someone who is around flowers every day feel compelled to steal them? If she loves flowers so much, she should know that the owner of such a beautiful garden must love them too and that they would be missed.

--KRISTA TAYLOR

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