Using your knowledge of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne from the lesson, which text from the short story supports the universal theme that "To truly care for someone or something means to accept it for what it truly is"?

A And so it was. Even while the party were looking at it, the flower continued to shrivel up, till it became as dry and fragile as when the doctor had first thrown it into the vase.
B "I love it as well thus as in its dewy freshness," observed he, pressing the withered rose to his withered lips.
C Inflamed to madness by the coquetry of the girl-widow, who neither granted nor quite withheld her favors, the three rivals began to interchange threatening glances.
D With a shuddering impulse, that showed her a woman still, the widow clasped her skinny hands before her face, and wished that the coffin lid were over it, since it could be no longer beautiful.