The answer is: “The Dandelion Girl” by Robert F. Young, thanks to a now deleted post below.
I started reading this at work a couple weeks ago, but wasn’t able to finish it at the time. Got a light morning, so I was trying to find it again, but to no avail.
I have a sneaking suspicion of the twist the story was building towards, but I wasn’t sure how the author was going to pull it off, as it seemed to be a textbook time travel paradox.
I thought the title might have something to do with flowers, but including that in my searches did not yield results, even after filtering out all of the “Flowers for Algernon” results, so I might be wrong.
You’re missing the point of asking for help finding something. Wtf op. Now I want to know what the name of the short story is, but because it wasn’t posted by someone who’d read it so you could have a bonding boner, the answer was deleted. Way to be a gatekeeper.
If it helps, I saw the original answer before this all went south. I won’t undermine the poster who has now redacted it by posting it here, but drop me a message and I’ll DM the title to you.
Youse a real one.