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Today I saw this possibly flowering cherry but flowering SOMETHING in Tompkins Square Park & I saw forsythia almost out on the way home. The day my dad died, I kept thinking an exception would be made, it was so unlikely & wrong. I feel similarly about our snow-less winter.