For example, Cousin Cally came over last week and grabbed a book off our bookshelf. It happened to be a favorite, Katharine Graham's Personal History, which I read when I lived in San Francisco in 2002 (and ironically takes place mostly in DC). Inside the book, I found an old SF Muni bus pass, dated July 2002 that I obviously used as my bookmark. After I got over the initial "whoa-I'm-old" feeling, I realized that was exactly 8 years ago and could distinctly recall reading that amazing book all over San Francisco (maybe even sometimes at my desk at work....on those really busy days). I stole the bookmark back from Cally (as all good older cousins should do) to use with my current read, The Big Short by Michael Lewis.
Well, today, as I was taking the bus in DC to meet some San Francisco friends who were in town and trying to make sense of the crazy mortgage bond crisis in Lewis's book, I managed to leave my SF bus pass bookmark on the DC bus.
Seems inconsequential, but to me it made me smile and recall that fabulous time in my life.
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I love this story, but it makes me sad that you've now lost that special bus pass. I haven't been reading your blog as often as I should....you've been doing some good posting, Missy!!!! Love the videos, and stories like this one. Now I'm ready for a new picture besides fingers up nose!!!
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