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I recently was tasked with taking care of a donation of about 80 or so Japanese books, and I was also able to talk briefly with the donor (an elderly couple emigrating back to their home country.) I had asked them for recommendations from the donation, and the wife immediately pulled a stack of 5.

27/10/26, 5:56 am0 reposts1 like

Maika

@micahb.dev

I like to think that she had been reading them and flipping them over before she had decided to include them, probably thinking "maybe I'll keep them? Maybe I won't." Eventually she decided to include them, of course, but I think she had hoped someone would ask her that exact question.

Maika

@micahb.dev

I ended up chatting for a whole hour with them, when I had only planned to be there for a few minutes. Somehow this makes me very sad...