The Purple Lilies
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Purple lilies and flowers are all part of nature, just like all of us. It's natural for things to go wrong in life, tragedy happens. Tragedy happens just as much as happiness and joy occurs. In the end we all turn out the same. Death. There isn't any escaping it, we may be able to prolong it and distance it from ourselves, but in the end it comes for everyone. We all die just like the purple lilies.
The purple lilies sit in a vase on the shelf of Cleo's grandmas care home room. Every day they are there, until one day they aren't...
Cleo's grandma has been ill for many years with dementia, but it's only until recently has it got really bad. Bad enough that she is no longer able to take care of herself and live on her own. Cleo visits her grandma everyday in a desperate plea that she doesn't forget her face or name. She visits every day whilst secretly fighting her own battles in her mind.
Cleo is terrified of losing her, but in the end that is what happens. After all, that is natural in nature, just like how eventually the purple lilies disappear...
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