A VALENTINE STORY

He loved her very much.
He wanted this Valentine's day to be special,
So, he had ordered a bottle of her favourite liquor imported from
France and it had arrived in time for the occasion.
On his way home,  he stopped at the local florist.
He had planned to have a bouquet made with her favourite flower, white anemones.
But to his dismay, he found that the florist had sold all her flowers
and had only a few sterns of feathery ferns left for decoration.
In a moment of inspiration, he had the answer.
He asked the florist to make a bouquet using the flask of liquor
instead of flowers and what she produced was magnificent well beyond
his expectations.
He added a card, and proceeded home.
When he arrived, his wife was beautiful in her most elegant gown, and
it was apparent that she had spent much of the day preparing a
romantic candlelight dinner for the two of them.
He presented her with his gift, and she opened the card to read,
"Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder."
With a tear in her eye, she whispered to him lovingly,
"Yes, and with fronds like these, who needs anemones."