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A gift here can sit beside either kind — a quiet witness to both the sadness and the love, and a way of telling the one grieving that they are not carrying it alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the ones missing someone or something they loved.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-gingko-dish","title":"The Gingko Dish","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe ginkgo is such a survivor, a species of tree that outlasted the dinosaurs and every relative it ever had. In autumn it does something almost no other tree will do. It holds its gold leaves through the first frosts, then drops every one of them in a single day, all at once, and stands bare, certain of its next beginning in the spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHand-poured concrete, United States. 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