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I finally marked it down to $2.95. A young guy came by, perused the book, and said it looked intriguing. He had always wanted to go to Costa Rica. Success! A sale! That would get the ball rolling. After an hour, two more sales.
Wall and Giles became friends and through gardening, he taught her how to remain optimistic and appreciative of life even when she knew she didn’t have much time left. That became the foundation for Wall memoir Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening. One drawback of the documentary is that it seems like it glosses over Owita’s involvement in all this, and while it does provide background on him, I would have liked to learn more about the man that inspired Wall so deeply.