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I do think it’s a very uneven exchange of Christmas presents. You’ll eat yours up in a week and have nothing left to show for it by New Year’s Day. I’ll have mine till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I’m leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some booklover yet unborn. Thank you all. Happy New Year.Helene Hanff (Christmas 1952. Helene has sent her friends at 84 a parcel of hard-to-find groceries, and her friends at 84 have sent her a copy of the Book-Lovers’ Anthology, “all gold-embossed leather and gold-tipped pages, easily the most beautiful book I own….” Here is her thank-you note. Via Facebook)
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