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The Garden single work   short story   fable  
Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 The Garden
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In a variant of the emperor's new clothes, a small girl wandering off the path in a much-admired unrestrained flower garden discovers the obverse of the coin of artful disorder in the neglected vegetable patch, which is tidily bedded and named, but the vegetables are almost destroyed.

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