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Dream Jobs: Florist

When Paige Long became a florist, she had never even received flowers. Now she builds arrangements by hand every day.

Dream Jobs: Florist

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By Chance Seales and Megan Smith

July 31, 2018

On a run one morning, Paige Long stumbled across Lee's Flower Shop, one of the only black-owned flower shops in Washington, D.C. She started out taking orders, but now she's one of the shop's floral designers.

Paige shows Newsy's Chance Seales around her dream job.

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