I said goodbye to some old friends today. I've known and loved them for 8 years now, have been intimately familiar with them, but it was time. Goodbye, Let's Go Europe and Let's Go France. You served me well. You gave me hostel advice and suggested cheap, tasty eats. You pointed me at the highlights as I tooled around cities. But you are not written in Euros, and I am too old for hostels, so it is time we went our separate ways.
Plus you took up too much shelf space.
I also steeled myself to thin my L.M. Montgomery collection. The books were filling Abigail's shelves, and she's starting into the brave new world of chapter books herself, so we had to make room. No, no, I kept Anne and Emily and some other favorites, but the short-story collections are being donated to the library. Hopefully an adolescent girl will find them and give them a good home.
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Thinning L.M. Montgomery?? GASP! What would Anne say??
Sadness.
Shana
Shana! I didn't know if you were still around. Geez, I've GOT to write to you. I'm surprised you still bother coming here since I've been so rotten about writing. E-mail me which address I should use!
I had to ditch my Let's Go France, too. I also got rid of about two dozen other books, mostly textbooks from the misadventure in Fort Lauderdale and a few Air Force related books I've no interest in reading. There are more books that may go away as we combine households, but my, isn't it tough to get rid of the things? I've always seen myself as a modern-day Jefferson, building up an expansive library I will pass on to the greater good when I pass on myself. (Maybe the public library in Glades County... although by the time I pass there will either be nobody in Glades County, or hundreds of thousands and they'll have plenty of money.) But storage space is at a premium and we haven't even moved in the sewing supplies yet... but you gave them to a library! Good for you! That's what I did, too. Libraries are good.
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