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  • Flowers shone in the fields like scattered jewels, waving in the wake of the escort truck: marigold, hibiscus, bougainvillea and frangipani red and white and pink, dark blue butterfly-pea and flowers with only native names, kapaka and manori, lavender-shaded, and the orange dadak.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

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