Lech Walesa, a shipyard worker, walked into her flower shop one day, and the rest is history.

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During the day, women weave flower wreaths and float them on water trying to guess where a future partner will come from.

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Some are skipping the snakes altogether and adding blossoming trees strung with LED lights or a profusion of flower bouquets to help invoke Valentine's Day.

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All of the pieces are embellished with filigree petal cut stones, honoring the Grace de Monaco pink rose, a flower named after Kelly in 1956 for her wedding day.

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Although England lost the Test series 1-0 they then won their first one-day series win in the Caribbean and Flower's good relationship with Strauss has helped to make him the leading candidate for the permanent role.

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After a street-side banquet, cap the day with a midnight tour of the riverside flower market and be struck anew by Bangkok's unexpected grace.

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On Andy Beauchamp's street in the notoriously irritable south London neighborhood of Peckham, for example, almost every single doorstep is dressed with flower-filled planters and over-flowing window boxes after Beauchamp decided one day to start sticking plants in front of his neighbors' homes.

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England coach Andy Flower echoed Strauss' view that Pietersen, who averages more than 40 in one-day internationals yet has managed only one half century in his last 23 innings in the middle order, might be reinvigorated by the switch.

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