It sprouted before everything else. It was pretty close to where I knew there was a coneflower.

But as it grew, I felt edgy. It doesn't look right. It looks broad-leafy.

It looks like a weed.

But I don't know.

So I keep watering it, waiting for it to flower so I'll finally understand.

But it makes me nervous to water it, because if it is a weed, it's putting down roots and stealing nutrients from the flowers around it.

Have anything like that in your life?

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