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I remembered two stories about stealing at wakes. I was back at the house after the funeral for the depressing sandwiches and looking through the bookcase I saw a book I had lent the woman whose funeral it was a couple years prior. My sister had given me that book which should have been reason enough to surreptitiously stuff it into my bag but it was a true story from the Holocaust and it had depressed me very much and I had lent it to this woman because she was pretty much obsessed with reading awful true stories about the Holocaust and now I associated this book with her. And this all kind of tied into why I was there in that house so I left the book on the shelf.
Another time I was at another person's house maybe a week after another funeral, a gathering of sorts, when in the bookcase I saw a book I had given the person whose funeral it was as a present a couple years before. I opened it up and inside I had written "HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY!! May you enjoy many more!!" which was just fucking depressing and I have never written such a thing in anything again. I considered stealing this book because I thought her spouse would be stricken if he ever opened it up and read that but I lost my nerve.
I remembered two stories about stealing at wakes. I was back at the house after the funeral for the depressing sandwiches and looking through the bookcase I saw a book I had lent the woman whose funeral it was a couple years prior. My sister had given me that book which should have been reason enough to surreptitiously stuff it into my bag but it was a true story from the Holocaust and it had depressed me very much and I had lent it to this woman because she was pretty much obsessed with reading awful true stories about the Holocaust and now I associated this book with her. And this all kind of tied into why I was there in that house so I left the book on the shelf.
Another time I was at another person's house maybe a week after another funeral, a gathering of sorts, when in the bookcase I saw a book I had given the person whose funeral it was as a present a couple years before. I opened it up and inside I had written "HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY!! May you enjoy many more!!" which was just fucking depressing and I have never written such a thing in anything again. I considered stealing this book because I thought her spouse would be stricken if he ever opened it up and read that but I lost my nerve.
