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I have this plant in my apartment. I've been in denial about it for something like 2 weeks or more- that it's dead. For awhile I kept watering it, because it had been a plant I really loved, but it was pretty hopeless- all the leaves were shriveled and brown. I gave up watering it but still didn't have the heart to throw it out. So it's been sitting on my windowsill, this dead plant, for weeks.

Last night I got back to my apartment after being elsewhere for the weekend and I noticed my plant- it was still as I had left it, a pot of brown and dead leaves, but sprouting up in the middle of it was a single green shoot, a furled leaf!!!! I think it was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. (If I had a digital camera I'd send y'all the image, but alas I do not.) But it was such a direct communication of new life out of something that was dead...
PRAISE GOD...