What's the most unusual thing you've ever found in a book?

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What's the most unusual thing you've ever found in a book?

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Apart from normal book marks, anything from bits of birthday cards, string, cuttings out of newspapers, crumbs and sweet wrappers I think the most unusual thing I ever found in a paperback book was a folded love letter from someone called Simon to his love, MaryAnne dated 1989... it made me cry.
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German. I bought what I thought was "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" in English. It was in
a Used Book Store in Spain. There were several copies. The one I thumbed haphazardly
was in English. I put it back, and continued to browse the store. I didn't find anything
that grabbed my fancy, so returned to the Ali Baba's and decided that it couldn't be any
worse than Don Quixote. Cervantes has been dead a million years and he's still relevant?
I can't imagine a bookstore in America offering the reading public newly pressed versions of The Gettysburg Address or The Emancipation. Lincoln is one of our most
enduring authors, but honestly Abe, that was a few years ago. You had your turn....
And that's all it took to divert my gaze long enough from the cover
of Ali Baba und Der Dieba Vierzig to buy meine Buch Erstes im Deutsch. Mein Gott!
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I found a dollar bill in a library book once. Someone must've used it as a bookmark and then forgot about it. Would've been better had it been a twenty...
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Even better if $100 dollar bill appeared...
" We don't see things as they are but as we are "

Carpe Diem!

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Even better if $100 dollar bill appeared...
" We don't see things as they are but as we are "

Carpe Diem!

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Once I had found a 1936 $5 check from New York in Austin, Texas. It was in a schoolbook.
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suzy1124 wrote:Even better if $100 dollar bill appeared...
For sure!
laxproatx_7 wrote: Once I had found a 1936 $5 check from New York in Austin, Texas. It was in a schoolbook.
Wonder what would've happened if you'd tried to cash it. ;)
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I like your new pic/avatar Carrie, glad to see you back!
" We don't see things as they are but as we are "

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I also found a dollar in a library book!
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suzy1124 wrote:I like your new pic/avatar Carrie, glad to see you back!
Thank you. :)
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:) :)
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A condom was probably the most unusual bookmark I've come across in a library book - unopened I hasten to add!
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I found a $20 in a thrift store book.

And ages and ages ago I found some LSD
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Fran wrote:A condom ... unopened I hasten to add!
Thank goodness for small mercies...
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There IS a God!
" We don't see things as they are but as we are "

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