A young survivor of the Genocide of the Armenian people (1914-1923), Auntie Rose loved her plants, and each day, carefully saved the peelings and scraps from the fruits and vegetables that she prepared for her breakfasts, lunches, and dinners with Uncle Harry. After every meal, she would gather the peelings, cores, and leavings of those fruits and vegetables (few as there were), and carefully dig the leavings into the soil next to a plant in her flower garden. Auntie Rose never wasted, as she knew, from childhood, what it was to go hungry. God rest her soul.
Having lived through the horrors of the genocide and witnessed chaos, Auntie Rose never wasted. May she and all our ancestors who perished rest in peace.
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