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\"Purple — In support of the proposition that a certain antipathy exists currently between Mormons<\/a> and flowers, I offer this: The Wikimedia Commons photograph above was taken at Temple Square in August 2005. If you were to visit Temple Square right now, though \u2014 just before Christmas, 2016 \u2014 you wouldn\u2019t be able to find these flowers ANYWHERE. Does anybody out there\u00a0seriously believe that to be a coincidence?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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If you\u2019re a Latter-day Saint and you haven\u2019t seen this little 46-second classic<\/a>, you owe it to yourself to watch it.<\/p>\n
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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 If you\u2019re a Latter-day Saint and you haven\u2019t seen this little 46-second classic, you owe it to yourself to watch it. \u00a0 \u00a0 Posted from Richmond, Virginia \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>"Why can't Mormons send flowers?"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    If you're a Latter-day Saint and you haven't seen this 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