Origin: Airplane reading.
How long kept: Uh, probably 10+ years. I believe that one of these was passed along to me for the flight back from an Asia trip, by a fellow traveler who had read it on the way over. That would have been 1999.
Usage: Yes, but not in this century.
Why kept: Out of Sight, Out of Mind. And, I might find myself without reading matter and thus Might Need It.
Destination: To "M". She mentioned having been up with The Kid in the middle of the night one night, reading another fun Sue Grafton tale, "G" is for Gumshoe. I was going be visiting "M" a few days hence, and I asked her if she wanted them. She did. (And she knows that she can Freecycle them or drop them at the library when she's done.)
Confession: I also gave "M" a bottle of Off Botanical, one of the fruits of the insect repellent purge. It looks significantly less toxic than some of the more repellent repellents, and I invite her to dispose of it if it's too toxic for The Boy and The Kid.
Bonus: On the ride to the airport for my trip back to NYC, my dad and I stopped at the public library in my folks' Chicagoland community. We dropped a good sized shopping bag of unloved books for their book sale/giveaway room. Way to go, Mom and Dad! (Not just the books, but now that my shopping bag stash is gone, look out friends and family: your shopping bags are not safe around me!)
My dad and I also removed a couple of good sized empty boxes out of his attic. Destination: recycling.
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