Meg and I drove to Melbourne last Friday (see
"Gloria's Day" for details).
We talked about the "Most Romantic" movies we
had seen. Meg brought up "Serendipity" and I
agreed that I had loved it. Though I felt that
given the size of the country etc. the couple
would most likely never get the book or note
back. Meg said if it was fate they would and
I said if it was me, as Murphy's Law was written
about me, it would not happen. Meg just laughed.
But we could not remember the book so while
stalled in traffic and inching ahead every few
minutes Meg googled it. The book turned out
to be "Love In The Time Of Cholera" by Gabriel
Garcia Marquez. A book I have never heard of.
In the 16 years Cliff and I have been together
and had "The Book Nook" and now "the Nook and
Cranny" there has never been a copy come across
the counter (does that not prove that if I was
looking for a copy to 'find true love' it would
be like looking for a needle in a hay stack.)
So imagine how surprised I was when I went into
Morwell PO and there was copy!!! So of course
I bought it and will read it over the next week
or two. I will also then be able to answer the
other questions that came to me. Was there any
reason why this book was used or was it just a
random choice? Did something happen in the year
the movie was made that made this choice a
natural one?
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