After a romantic candlelight dinner

A man wanted Valentine’s Day to be special, so

he bought a bottle of absinthe and stopped by

the florist’s to order a bouquet of his wife’s favorite

flower: white anemones.


Unfortunately, the florist was sold out of flowers

and had only a few stems of feathery ferns.


The man asked the florist to make a bouquet out

of the ferns and the flask of liquor.


He added a card and proceeded home.


After a romantic candlelight dinner,

he presented his wife with the gift.


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.”