If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.
("84, Charing Cross Road")
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I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
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