<p>We gotta wait for the random chicks to respond!</p>
<p>^^^
Those “random chicks” are getting a lot of clicks to their sites!</p>
<p>A friend in another group found this with no attribution, unfortunately:</p>
<p>“She had a fondness for gardenias. Like a favorite private memory, they
made her happy. She’d make daily cuttings and place their creamy
velvet-like blooms in jelly jars and old china bowls all over her house.
She’d smile and breathe in deeply. ‘Like many things in life,’ she said,
'their stay is too brief, but while they are here the air is filled with
magic.”</p>
<p>Looks too long to be a greeting card original, unless it’s one of those deadly-serious cards with too much text and no punch line…</p>
<p>but wait, there’s more:</p>
<p>" and dumping the flowers from each ornate bowl, she would lovingly fill each with mounds of Iams retrieved from the white pantry. Then, and only then, would her 47 stray cats emerge from all the corners of her condemned Victorian."</p>
<p>rorosen, I believe your talent as a greeting card writer has been unmasked.</p>
<p>LOL rorosen</p>
<p>Maybe calling the greeting card company would be the way to go?</p>
<p>But we don’t know the greeting card company , only Barnes and Noble. I couldn’t find just single cards on their site.</p>
<p>I keep thinking of the movie On Golden Pond with Katherine Hepburn. Don’t ask me why…</p>
<p>I thought the card might have a company name on the back. Oh well. Maybe Barnes and Noble would know where they get their cards from?</p>
<p>This thread is making me crazy. I was one of the closet Googlers, since this looks familiar to me as well and since my mother had an immense gardenia bush she used to pour pickle and olive brine on. (They like that, apparently.) Someone PLEASE find this out!</p>
<p>"I have a fondness for large envelopes. Like hope for the future, they make me happy. I make hourly pilgrimages to my mailbox, hoping to see a velvet-like sheen or the emblazoned word “Congratulations!” therein. I smile and say, “If I don’t live through the next few weeks, cover me with gardenias.”</p>
<p>^Wow I just about DIED. So funny!</p>
<p>yes dear folks do save yourselves from this obsession perhaps by inventing a few parodies or else some snippy kid will mention this really absurd preoccupation as proof that we cc adults have no lives and are willing to squander our precious time chasing unattributable phrases,…</p>
<p>on second thought, this is much more worthwhile than politics,…</p>
<p>never mind,…</p>
<p>^^ For the last ten years I’ve been part of a group of amateur urban legend researchers/discussers/kvetchers. You people are insouciant flibbertigibbets by comparison…</p>
<p>Oh my goodness.</p>
<p>She messaged me back! I was excited. Here is the message below:</p>
<p>
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<p>LOL</p>
<p>Are we doomed to accept that it’s merely text on a greeting card?</p>
<p>LOL omg yeah she sent me the same message</p>
<p>well, I just love that line, wherever it came from, as I too have a fondness for gardenias, and had them in my wedding bouquet…</p>
<p>they are a little tough to grow here in SoCal, at least for me…they need care and feeding, and I am too busy for all that…hmm, maybe I’ll try the pickle and olive brine</p>
<p>Well it was fun ride while it lasted! :)</p>
<p>sigh. I’ll miss the hunt.</p>
<p>here’s an easy one, for St. Patrick’s Day. (maybe we can have themed searchs from now til May 1st?)</p>
<p>“"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'”</p>
<p>James Joyce?</p>