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Plants will grow just about anywhere. Concrete is no match for the forces of little cell walls multiplying and pushing roots, stems, leaves, buds.

This used to be a nice vegetable garden, but the stingy man who owns the building where the wild violet is now growing thought it would be an "improvement" to asphalt over the strip of soil that was diverting water and providing diversion and food for the first-floor residents of our apartment across the driveway.

His stupid building is still vacant after a year. . . .

Having just listened to the city's mobile Wet Weather $4 Billion Projects presentation, I am finding myself angry all over again.