Among Barkin's jewels is a ring made up of 850 diamonds sculpted to look like a gardenia blossom.

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She may be gone forever, or one day I'll smell a hint of gardenia and maybe it will be her.

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" He also loves "that touch of a little vase of sweet tulips or a few stems of gardenia, something fresh, in the bathroom by the sink.

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Nina, always with a gardenia pinned somewhere on her outfit, strolled in on the first day and had a few students in tears by the end of class.

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