Thank you for the review. The intended meaning of the last line was to say through metaphor, that in life, sometimes you have to let go of beautiful things and just move on. Just like a plant whose flower, including its petals, dies but the plant's life continues. The plant metaphor was also intended to circle back to the first line where the boyfriend sees his girlfriend down the street, looking rather radiant in the late afternoon sun---flower-like.
The afternoon/evening setting was representative of the end of the relationship. The decision to end of the relationship was "doing the right thing."
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