{"id":216892863,"date":"2010-02-21T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216892863"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:36:02","slug":"dear-kristine-elizabeth-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216892863","title":{"rendered":"Dear Kristine Elizabeth Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Kristine Elizabeth Hoffman<\/p>\n

I love the occasional and unintended glimpses of other people’s lives that I find in the second hand books I read. \u00a0I have been idly wondering about how many degrees, in this internet-connected global village of ours,\u00a0separate two complete strangers whose only connection is a paperback book. \u00a0For instance, take the book above, Anne Lamott’s Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith<\/em>. \u00a0It was one of three I received as a birthday gift a few weeks back, purchased by my wife in New Zealand over the internet from a secondhand bookseller in the US via the Amazon website and shipped via a friend’s address in the UK.<\/p>\n

Why am I telling you this? \u00a0Because earlier today, halfway through chapter twelve, I came across a Delta boarding pass with your name on it.\u00a0This, together with the\u00a0window sticker that dropped from between the last few pages when I first opened the book a week or so ago, is the just sort of happenstance that intrigues me. \u00a0Are you a die-hard Lamott fan or a first time reader? \u00a0Are you strong in your faith or working through years of stuff like me? Do you ever wonder who else reads the books you read?<\/p>\n

I’m no Sherlock Holmes but from the boarding pass it would seem that in late June. last year or the year before – the boarding pass is not yellowed or overly faded – you flew Delta between Salt Lake City and Atlanta. \u00a0Did you fly as a crew member on standby? \u00a0The pass is marked ‘NRSA’ which, Google tells me, stands for Non Revenue Space Available and means free seating for airline personnel and their family members.\u00a0As for the ‘Montana Native’ sticker, who knows? \u00a0Maybe you’re a native Montanan flight attendant who deadheaded out of Helena down to the Atlanta hub via Utah\u00a0after an early summer family reunion.<\/p>\n

Oh, I almost forgot to ask – do you wear Vera Wang perfume? \u00a0I only ask because, when I checked the other two\u00a0books, I found a ‘Bouquet’ perfume tester card wedged a third of the way through Grace (Eventually)<\/em>. \u00a0There again, there is every chance that book is part of an entirely different person’s story.<\/p>\n

Blessings and happy reading!<\/p>\n

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