It was a soft landing for Tracy Zins, above, as he plopped onto a mattress with his girlfriend Teri Bauer at the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show at the downtown Convention Center. But the hard truth was that Sunday marked the end of the six-day event that spanned two weekends. Elizabeth Paulus and 10-month-old Nora Zimmerman, right, made sure to smell the flowers.
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