tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post5739407884092844442..comments2023-10-06T08:47:44.599-04:00Comments on THE CIVILIANS BLOG /: GONE MISSING at Barrow Street on 8/08!The Civilians Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01220618880002491729noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627898956359295496.post-42760279208585581252011-08-12T16:16:39.314-04:002011-08-12T16:16:39.314-04:00This summer I have been obsessed with going to use...This summer I have been obsessed with going to used books stores and hunting for bargains. One of my favorite finds was a book of Neruda poems. All the poems were just a few lines long, so I would bring it to my waitressing job and sneak a poem or two in between customers. This book was magical. I would bring it on the subway or to a bar, and everyone would always flock to me to ask me what I was reading. Then the worst happened- I loaned it to a co-worker and she lost it! I spent the next day following her tracks, making a timeline of where she went. I even crashed a private party at a bar she frequents to search for it. No luck, no book. I had accepted that the book was lost forever. Weeks went by. Then, yesterday, my boyfriend came over with a present for me. The exact edition of the book! He didn’t even know that I had lost it. I was so happy. He was surprised at how much I loved the gift, but it was like magic, as if the lost thing had just fallen from the sky.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com