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Head the diameter of a saucepan riding on a stem taller than most children, petals golden at the outer ring and fading to rust where the seed-pack begins. Leans visibly toward the afternoon sun in a way that makes the whole field look like it is listening to the same story.
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Farmed as a border crop and a seed crop and occasionally an excuse crop, because a field of sunflowers is the one thing the tax assessor will not inspect too closely. Seed-pressers take the heads at the end of summer and render oil in quantities the village can actually afford. The old saying that a sunflower always faces the sun gets tested twice a generation by contrarians, who fail to produce one that does otherwise without noticeable intervention.