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Mike MorrisAbout 5 years ago my sister lost a book of poetry (William Blake), so recently she decided to replace it and ordered a second hand copy on eBay. It arrived today.
It's got her handwritten notes in it. It's hers.
mohairplease don't play with me :)
toxtethogrady@MikeMorris Time to start demanding answers...
Brendan Palmer@MikeMorris this is one for you @pamela_weaver
pamela_weaver@B_A_Palmer @MikeMorris It’s mad how often this seems to happen!
SueG In NJ
Steve's Place@MikeMorris Someone also found a lost camera while magnet fishing. It has photos from a woman who speaks Mandarin that was traveling the world.
It's "found stuff" day on mastodon!
Auntie Denier@MikeMorris @stevesplace today I learned about “magnet fishing”! https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoor-gear/a39679643/everything-you-need-to-get-started-in-magnet-fishing/
Panama Red@MikeMorris How cool!
∴ esoterik ∴@MikeMorris amazing! ✨
Bleistifterin@MikeMorris wonderful
Virginia Heffernan
Mr. Completely@MikeMorris "the thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest"
Tiffany Li
Steven Bodzin@MikeMorris the book comes back with a little less innocence, a little more experience
@MikeMorris @guacamayan Thanks for reminding me how much I love William Blake.
Caledonia 🏴
Kelly Wheaton 
🦫💧🐸 🌻🌹@MikeMorris wow! That is awesome. I ❤️ serendipity.
Overwhelmedhippie@MikeMorris I love it when things like this happen.
szescstopni@MikeMorris Many years ago an antique shop called me and said they have something I should look at. It was an old miniature portrait of my mother, part of a set of which the other half, the portrait of my father, was still at our house. No idea who took it or when, the shop wouldn't disclose the seller's name unless I went to the police (which they advised me to do), but it was inexpensive and the set was rejoined. It's nice to live in relatively small communities.
metasilk@MikeMorris that’s amazing!
I was in an antique shop the other day, saw a book I’d read as a kid, picked it up to refresh my memory. Saw a name plate that matched one I’d had as a kid, & smiled. Saw my name on the nameplate and was amazed.(I don’t know when or why I let the book out of the house, but definitely a while back!)
#KingOfTheWind
Patrick@MikeMorris Sounds like EspBay to me!
LeaBug@MikeMorris whoa.....
Liam Dutton@MikeMorris My dad bought a 2nd hand book about the history of London. At a PT school evening, he mentioned the book to my form teacher, eventually lending it. My teacher visited his parents for a long wkend (about 200 miles) bringing the book. His mum saw it, said that as a child it was like a copy she would read at a neighbours house, which had their name in. The house contents were sold when the neighbour died. Looking at the book, it was the same one from 50+ years before.
Doreen32128 ready to rumble!
BoredomFestival@MikeMorris What is now proved was once, only imagin'd.
David Lewis@MikeMorris
that is serendipity
that is serendipity
Tammy Gentzel
Emily Croy Barker@MikeMorris I am pretty sure that could only happen with William Blake.
Matthias Rex 🦣@MikeMorris This happened to me once with a book by Ronald Hutton at a library book sale; my name was stamped on the inside cover.
Kris Samsel@MikeMorris odds are staggering. 🏆
Julien Deswaef 
@MikeMorris No way. How lucky.
Donald Heering@MikeMorris What are the odds? My in-laws brought a lamp to a pawn shop, fed up with it. A couple of weeks later they bought another lamp there that they liked. It was the same lamp. I guess stuff likes to travel in circles?
Richie Enameller
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Simon A Brett@MikeMorris A few years ago my wife sold an outfit of a top and skirt on EBay. A week later, we travelled from our home in Devon to London to see Blur play in Hyde Park. My wife was sitting on the grass when a girl tripped over her feet. My wife took one look at the outfit the girl was wearing and called her by her EBay username, to which the girl did the same in return.
bananabob 
🇺🇦 🇵🇸@MikeMorris There is a movie in this tale.
Joan Albright@SimonBrett @MikeMorris My family moved back to a city we'd lived in when I was 5. I auditioned for a play, and the director mentioned that I looked like someone she used to babysit. Somehow I pulled that lady's name out of my head 12 years later.
I've also run into 3 separate people I'd first met in a completely different state. Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction.
@MikeMorris
Someone needs to start making self-annotating books. This one has a story to tell.
Someone needs to start making self-annotating books. This one has a story to tell.
AlicePaulSuch a wonderful story!
A couple years ago I bought a junk jewelry bracelet on ebay that I’m almost certain was mine as a teen. The exact same stone is missing.
0x10f/kalle/qalle@MikeMorris Not as big of a coincidence, but I saw the same SNES game on an online auction site that I had sold there ten years before. (It had the same sticker I had put on it.)
Zekovski 🧣@MikeMorris
Did she ask where they got it ?
Did she ask where they got it ?
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@MikeMorris serendipoetry!
Cade@MikeMorris That's crazy. Imagine the journey and hands it's been in. Awesomeness.
Rozzychan@MikeMorris
That's what I call FATE.
That's what I call FATE.
hawaiianeye797 (Craig F)
Dustin Mueller@MikeMorris That is so cool! Has she reached out to the seller to find out how it came into their possession? There’s a story to tell there.
Bodling@MikeMorris Could only be better if several intervening owners added their names and occasional notes.
Cheryl G Kasson@MikeMorris That is amazing!
Andy Paciorek 💀☕@MikeMorris
The actor Anthony Hopkins had a similar experience -
"Anthony Hopkins was one of the stars in a film called "The Girl from Petrovka." And he went to London to buy a copy of the book so that he could read about the book and the character and so on. But he couldn't find a copy of the book. None of the bookstores stocked it. But then on his way home on the tube station in London, he came across a copy of the book on the seat next to him. 1/2 .
The actor Anthony Hopkins had a similar experience -
"Anthony Hopkins was one of the stars in a film called "The Girl from Petrovka." And he went to London to buy a copy of the book so that he could read about the book and the character and so on. But he couldn't find a copy of the book. None of the bookstores stocked it. But then on his way home on the tube station in London, he came across a copy of the book on the seat next to him. 1/2 .
" Later, when he met the author and told the author this story, the author told him that a year or so before he'd lost a copy of the book in London and it was a particular copy that he'd been annotating to change the English into American spellings and things like that, and he'd lost it on the Tube. And when Anthony Hopkins showed him the copy of the book that he'd found on the tube months later, it turned out to be exactly the same book. "
stevenray@MikeMorris ha, that’s wild.
Hikki 
@MikeMorris she from five years ago sold it to her
Lisa Hay@MikeMorris the trouble with loving a book is you always want to lend it- so often they never return
Stargeezer Smith@MikeMorris
Now that is wild. She could write a book about that, imagine the journey, the people handling it would be the story.
Now that is wild. She could write a book about that, imagine the journey, the people handling it would be the story.
Starraven@MikeMorris
Wow. To know where it has gone during that time, eh?
Wow. To know where it has gone during that time, eh?
NotMaddie!@MikeMorris This needs to be a movie from the perspective of the book
@MikeMorris That's wild!
Vayl Larkin (they/them)I purchased a paperback copy of Rushdie's "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" on my way to my first out-of-state opera gig when I was 20. After years of travel with it, a friend borrowed it, failed to even open it, and promptly lost it.
I moved somewhere with more book-room, and a used hardcover copy of that book, purchased from a seller online was my first purchase. I didn't care what it looked like, so long as it was in good repair.
When it arrived, it was a signed first edition.
Hulk Smash COVID@MikeMorris CRAY to the ZAY!