mike69spain: I think you were all along, he made you see it again, that's all, but good on him for that
And ---> (full of that sweet magic)
No, I've really hated them for over 20 years...ever since a boyfriend of mine littered my one-bedroom apartment with a dozen of them a day and made it stink like a funeral home...a joke turned me around to liking them again. I have, however, always appreciated the medicinal value of rose hips.

He made me appreciate more than that about them, for the first time in a long time.
As long as he never gets it into his head to send me a dozen real ones a day, we'll be fine.