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The Rise and Fall of a Dream Author: Mary Dixie Carter Marguerite is more brand than person. She lives in a stately home, perched on a cliff above a glistening lake. The grounds are expertly tailored, with Marguerite’s signature roses spreading rich perfume among the isles of flowers and trees, the winding paths, the breathtaking vistas. But is all this really Marguerite’s work, or is Phoenix, her gardener, the one truly responsible for the carefully executed vision, for the details that go into Marguerite’s Instagram posts and gardening books, for Marguerite’s unending success, for the fact that Marguerite is a by-word [...]