Employees at a flower market on Shanghai's Yongjia Road prepare a bouquet of 999 red roses yesterday for a customer who paid 35,000 yuan (US$4,345) for the bouquet as a Valentine's Day gift for his girlfriend.  As the lovers' festival draws near, flower shops across the city have put more than 50 types of domestic and imported roses on sale. --Shen Kai/Shanghai Daily

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