A very, very special bookmark post today! Yes, this is the one that started it all. My first bookmark. I think I got it back when I six or seven years old. And it received heavy use in those early days, as you can tell from the fading. I certainly have more expensive and exotic bookmarks in my collection, but none that mean as much to me as this one.
Book: Complete Poems and Major Prose by John Milton (ed. Merritt Y. Hughes)
Alex Good 
I’m impressed that you managed to hold onto something so small for so long. I mean, I’ve had Mr Zip since I was 6 or 7, but a stuff animal is easier to deal with long term.
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Heavy use meant I always had it around. And then later it had a special place in my collection.
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Just like Mr Zip has a special place in my heart too.
Awwwwwww….
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We’re such a pair of softies.
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That, or it’s our fatal weakness as we wreck havoc on society at large…
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I vote for havoc.
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Me too.
Right after breakfast anyway…
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You need to get to bed!
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I already did. I woke up at 140 due to poison ivy 😦
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Ouch. That sucks. Just gotta ride that out.
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Thankfully, Tecnu scrub works pretty good, but it’s not a miracle worker….
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I can totally see how you two get along…
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Because we’re both debonair gentlemen of leisure?
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Because we have that New World work ethic that gets us up early, and that has sleepyheads in Scotland only catching up to us hours later, despite a 5.5 hour head start on their day!
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I thought THAT went without saying….
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Didn’t think they had books back then…
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We still needed some way to mark our place in a really long papyrus scroll.
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That is a cool Bookmark for a youngster, well done for keeping it!
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I must have felt pretty cool to have it when I was a kid!
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I love the fact you still have that bookmark. A very handsome one at that, even after all these years!
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Thanks Bruce! It’s like the Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane . . .
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😂
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