I buy my textbooks off of Amazon.com, and often buy them used. Sometimes, I'm lucky and get a great deal, and a book in great shape. Other times, I get a good deal, but the book will have some writing in it, but I don't usually mind.
This semester, I purchased a book by Harville Hendrix, Getting the Love You Want for my Marriage and Family in the Christian Community course.
There's a problem, though. The other day, I opened my book and felt a little awkward...
Eeesh! I'm a little worried about Lee Ellen and Larry, whoever they are or were...
Did Larry get the love he wanted?
Is Larry still wishing Lee Ellen well?
Is he still wondering what the future holds?
Did they make it?
or...
Did they love the book so much that they just had to pass it on?
Who knoooows?! Ha. It was 13 years ago, right?
To me, a person who knows that relationships and marriages are important and tricky things, it is one part funny, one part sad, and one part awkward.
I'm hoping they made it. Still...a little awkward. Here's to you Larry and Lee Ellen!
(Funny how interconnected we are by technology...someone bought a book for someone else with great hope, then someone read it, perhaps another person sold the book on Amazon.com, and now I am wondering about their personal life.)
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