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Fall 2007 • Vol. XXIX No. 4 • Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize |

The Night You Questioned the Purpose of Flowers

By Frankie Romano

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Frankie Romano is a tenth-grade National Honor Society member at Kennedy High School in Bellmore, New York. She has had a short story published in The Anthology of Short Stories by Young Americans in 2003. She has attended the National Young Leaders Conference in 2006 in New York and in 2007 in Washington, D.C.

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