The Romanian holiday of Marțișor might be my favorite day of the year. On March 1st, the streets are full of vendors selling the earliest of spring flowers -- snowdrops mostly, and a few early tulips too -- and little red & white bracelets with baubles attached. Men buy them for their wives and girlfriends, parents buy them for their children, students buy them for their friends -- and by the end of the day, every vase is brimming with flowers and every lapel decorated with a little splash of color, a little drop of hope that spring is coming, that the winter is almost over.
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