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Light of Mine by Dave Horlick  Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:57:54 GMT

Zeke: Hey Bridget. What are you doing in here? | Bridget: Potting cacti. Want to help?Zeke: Sure! Do plants even work indoors? | Bridget: I don't see why not. We've got air, sand and seven 40-Watt desk lamps.Zeke: Why seven? | Meg: So we can attach filters to six for a rainbow-worth's of color! | Bridget: We're wondering which color the cacti will like best.Zeke: Genius. | Bridget switches on the lamp, which goes Click.Later that season… | Zeke: Which cactus grew the most? The one under the green light? | Bridget: Nope. The ones under the unfiltered white light did best, But after that, yellow.Our friends have ventured outside. | Meg: Yellow?! What is that about? | Zeke: Maybe there's some advantage in responding well to yellow.Bridget thinks about it.Bridget looks up into the sky, at the Sun.Bridget snaps fingers. | Bridget: Of course!

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