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...By 1991, she has become a wan, guarded 31-year-old (Jasmine Blackborow), still with that tough exterior but with a brittle, damaged air. What’s happened in between?...
...Under wall-trained specimens of bottlebrush, strawberry tree, winter jasmine and a sprawling wisteria is a host of purple toadflax. They still display their slim spikes of little “snapdragons”....
...They salvaged doors from scrapyards, festooned antique beds in burlap, and converted the pigsty and stables into bedrooms with balconies and bowers of jasmine. Word spread....
...The first was a refreshing, old-fashioned jasmine-tea junket using milk from the local dairy, the second a meringue ice cream in a deep yellow pool of buckthorn juice....
...Borgo Santo Pietro, 5km from the hilltop village of Chiusdino, doesn’t compete with the wilder landscape of the Val D’Orcia, for instance, nor the wooded villages in the Chianti hills....
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