Thank you! 
I just sealed up the box, but I had an odd thought. I have vanilla “seeds” from several years ago. I don’t have a clean room, which would probably be needed to work with these seeds.
Vanilla seeds aren’t technically alive, being only 3 cells. They rely on a fungus breaking in from outside, in which case they parasitize the fungus and use it to start growth.
The smallest of those dots is multiple “seeds.”
I don’t have any way of telling if any of this is viable, of course, but considering the growth patterns it’s possible.
Would anyone be interested in seeing this in the box?
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Of course they belong in the box! 
Somebody is bound to want to give them a try. Maybe you may want to write a label on them that includes that information, for the aid of anyone who wants to try them?
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Apologies. I neglected to message @Naomiupland so I am waiting for her address.
It’s been more than a week since I messaged @Naomiupland and she hasn’t responded. Does anyone have an alternative way to get hold of her? She was last here on January 15th.
If she does not respond, @KadenceLunemann is next on the list.
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I’ll wait for others to pop in. I can send it to naomi after me if they get back on maybe?
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I don’t know of any other way to contact her. Why don’t you send it to @KadenceLunemann , and I’ll move @Naomiupland one down the list? We can hope she’ll be responsive again in a few weeks. 
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I messaged my info to you Lauren
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Thanks!
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Sent off this morning.
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Hi guys! I was travelling! 
Ready to receive the box next. Thanks Emily!
Woo hoo! 
We figured it was something like that, and you’d be back soon. 
The box got treated like a hackey sack me thinks. I’m going to get a new box for it because this one is tired boss… 
@Naomiupland message me your info.
Now to get dinner started so I can look through the box!
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Ha ha, yes, boxes can wear out after being shipped over and over again! 
Just for clarification, the box was barely holding together. Looking at the pic when Lauren got it you can really tell. It was not this rough going out I don’t think.
I don’t think anything was missing thankfully!
Luckily boyfriend works warehouse and he should be able to bring home some sturdy boxes to pick a replacement…. Like a hermit crab seed box…. The sisterhood of traveling pants- er… traveling seed box? 
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Wow, that does look like it sustained use as a hackey sack! Methinks you’re absolutely right that a new box is needed!
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Wow. No, it wasn’t that rough when I sent it. I did pull all the old labels off, but the box was still intact. Maybe the old labels were holding it together?
Looks like it got a lot of extra tape in transit as well.
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Maybe a post office worker accidentally dropped it, and then wrapped a lot of tape around it to fix it. I could easily see a mistake like that happening sometimes. Totally understandable; we all have the capacity to be klutzy sometimes!
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Box is on it’s way! I messaged the tracking, let me know if you got that message @Naomiupland
I got it into a brand new sturdy box. So hopefully it’ll last a while.
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Woo hoo!