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Speaker 1: After a long week of selling out on the daily,

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Speaker 1: Beth McDonald could use a break.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to see another red rose for weeks weeks.

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Speaker 2: But I'm honestly, you fork, I'm thrilled it was a

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Speaker 2: great holiday.

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Speaker 1: She's a third generation florist that owns Kendall Flower Shop.

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Speaker 1: Being in the Kendall Square business district, she wasn't sure

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Speaker 1: what to expect with Valentine's Day falling on the weekend,

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Speaker 1: but all in all, it was more than she could

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Speaker 1: have asked for, selling.

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Speaker 3: Thousands and thousands and thousands of stems, like too many

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Speaker 3: to even count.

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Speaker 4: So I wasn't really sure what to expect because it

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Speaker 4: was on a Saturday, and it hasn't been on a

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Speaker 4: Saturday in like ten years.

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Speaker 1: But McDonald is no stranger to the busy holiday. Her

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Speaker 1: grandfather opened the place in Cambridge's Kendall Square in nineteen

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Speaker 1: forty two and it's been a local family business ever since.

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Speaker 2: So my grandfather owned it, he started it, and then

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Speaker 2: my parents took it over, and then I took it over,

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Speaker 2: you know, thirty five years ago.

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Speaker 4: So I've been here since I was a little.

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Speaker 1: Kid in Cambridge. Em a freedman WBZ, Boston's news radio