A. eccentric B.purchase C. imaginations D. vain E. speculating. F.delighted G.smell H.retrieved I. properly J.appropriate K. imagining L. anonymous M. delivered N. appreciation O. perfume Every year on my birthday,from the time l turned 12,a white gardenia was 1_______ to my house.No card or note came with it. Calls to the florist were always in vain _ it was a cash 2._______ . After a while l stopped trying to discover the sender's identity and3.______ in the beauty and heady 4.______ of that one magical, perfect white flower nestled in soft pink tissue paper. But I never stopped imagining who the 5_______ giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful and exciting but too shy or 6.________ to make known his or her identity. Mv mother contributed to these7._______. She'd ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing 8._______. Perhaps the neighbor I'd helped when she was unloading a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail l 9._____ during the winter so he wouldn't have to venture down his icy steps. As a teen -ager, though,I had more fun 10._____ that it might be a boy I had a crush on or one who had noticed me even though I didn't know him.