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Answer: We believe the sentence is best completed this way:

“Many of the storefronts on Lake Garden Road are flower shops or bridal centers, as if bouquets and marriage partners are bound with the same ribbon.”

Streets develop their own character and the one written about here seems to have become a wedding way. Many of the stores on it cater to people in love, either contemplating marriage or in marriage, with roses and other petaled offerings being a common means of expressing lovely sentiment. In saying “bouquets and marriage partners are bound with the same ribbon,” we are distilling many natural qualities into one word, ribbon. A lover actually is bound by love for, desire of, and trust in another, and a bouquet of flowers is mostly about fragrance and beauty. But the characteristics are folded together in the heart so thoroughly that they become as one.
街道會發展出自己的特色，本句敘述的街道似乎是條結婚大道，許多商店專作打算結婚或正籌辦婚禮的情侶生意，玫瑰與各種鮮花充斥，用以表達愛意。句中說「花束與新人由同一條緞帶相繫」，運用「緞帶」一字聯繫許多基本的特質。情侶因彼此相戀、想與對方廝守、信賴對方而結合為夫婦，而花束通常因為香味與外型而搭配在一起，不過這些特色在本質上是非常緊密的，所以可以用緞帶聯繫在一起。