When I was a child, our family owned an object which I believed to be the most beautiful thing on the planet: a real Red Rose, preserved in wax and displayed inside a water-filled, glass globe  atop a black plastic plinth. It captivated me.

I would stare at this exquisite object for extended periods of time, thinking it must surely be quite precious and expensive. In hindsight, it was impossibly tacky and kitsch, but when you’re feeling it, who gives a shit?

My point is that I immediately flashed-back on that wax-dipped Red Rose in the glass globe when I saw this similarly tacky Pink Glittery Rose in its own fishbowl-like globe, displayed  for sale  outside a Deli that recently opened on the corner of 14th Street and Avenue A. Ah, sweet, sweet nostalgia.