“I'll never understand this mania for black. Nobody sends black...” – Maude, Harold and Maude ... Movie Quotes Database

I'll never understand this mania for black. Nobody sends black flowers, do they? Black flowers are dead flowers. Who sends dead flowers to a funeral? It's absurd.

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