Otherwise, "when flowers are finished, all you're left with are a bunch of dead flowers, " says John Greenlee, a Brisbane, Calif.

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It was covered in Vaseline and filled with dead flowers.

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What you did not reflect in your story is that this involved someone who not only harassed the person via the Internet but also showed up at their door to deliver dead flowers.

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Families will devote a day to cleaning the graves, decorating them with candles and flores del muerto (flowers of the dead), having picnics and dancing to mariachi bands.

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There's even strong evidence that Neanderthals cared for one another and buried their dead, complete with ritual and flowers, thousands of years before our kind got around to it.

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