When the tulips arrived, they were closed, and rose-pink-apricot on the outside. Now, the petals lie open upon the table like hearts. They are yellow at the tip, merging into green, then, red-orange, orange, and yellow rims the curved, roundness at the top. I am astonished at how each petal is in the shape of a heart and also, how near the top there is a seam. It is so much one, as two, as one, like each, of us.