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Just found a whole bunch of clover pressed between several pages of a used book :D
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A love letter in a library book. I read it...but left in in when I returned it. Made me smile :D
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I love finding random stuff in used books! :D

The best ones I've found were little vintage Christmas cards, postcards (I think from Italy) with Egyptian artifacts on them, and train tickets from Europe.

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Someones report card. So funny.
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I went looking for a specific book in a used book store. I found a single copy, and there was a birthday card in it, but it was one of those blank cards.
The giver had written a love letter inside, and I feel blessed to have had a little peak into something so special. I find myself hoping they're out there somewhere, still together (it was dated late nineties).
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Foreign currency.
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Gravy wrote:I went looking for a specific book in a used book store. I found a single copy, and there was a birthday card in it, but it was one of those blank cards.
The giver had written a love letter inside, and I feel blessed to have had a little peak into something so special. I find myself hoping they're out there somewhere, still together (it was dated late nineties).
What if the note was never delivered?! :o That would be a sad story in itself.
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That would really suck! :lol:
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But the story would probably make a multimillion dollar movie. :roll:
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No doubt Nicholas Sparks would write it, and one of the main characters would die...or someone close to one one of the main characters...one of the two :lol:
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Most likely. :lol:
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I was looking through some of my old books a while back and I found a receipt for some keys I had made in 1972.
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Very cool! :)
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Store receipts make good bookmarks. Ive even found feathers in books for bookmarks.
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I have yet to find or use one of those. But my cats love to play with them! ;)
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