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[โ€“] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

One of my favorite stories to embarass my wife is about how I lent her a book after our second date. Dirk Gently, after I saw Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on her shelf.

A decade later she still hasn't gotten more than two chapters into it. At this point she says she can't break her streak. Says that wanting my book back has kept me around this long and she's not about to ruin a good thing.

We'll gloss over all the other books I've bought her that I end up reading first.

[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Oh man, she's missing out - Dirk Gently is great!