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In this May 2019 photo, Molly Sprayregen, right, and her fiancé Meredith Bennett-Swanson celebrate the purchase of one of their new house plants in Chicago, Ill. (Molly Sprayregen via AP)

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Finding joy indoors in troubled times, one leaf at a time
March 19, 2020 9:53 a.m.

Finding joy indoors in troubled times, one leaf at a time

CHICAGO (AP) — I have spent my first full week of isolation carefully observing one of my houseplants. Dylan, as my fiancee and I so fondly call her, has been growing new leaves at an uncharacteristically rapid rate.