A rose pressed into a book of love poems inspires a new set of memories

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She placed the book on her dressing table next to a framed photo of her with her prom date, the wrist wearing her corsage, playfully displayed. And yes she may have had a crush on the young man who gave it to her.

I don’t know what happened to the photo, but the book traveled through life with her, eventually coming to live in the library in her home in Southern California...