Mystery of the White Gardenia

• 作者: Marsha Arons 张社列
• 来源期刊: 语言教育
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: PERFECT GARDENIA mother BIRTHDAY PURCHASE never SOMEONE stopped delivered beauty
• 年，卷（期）: 1997,（1）
• 页码范围: 41-42
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: H319.4

摘要

<正> Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a whitegardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda, Md. No card ornote came with it. Calls to the florist were always in vain-it was a*cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover thesender’s identity and just delighted in the beauty and *heady per-fume of that one magical, perfect white flower nestled in soft pinktissue paper. But I never stopped imagining who the anonymous