Eddie’s birthday went ok. I wasn’t able to buy him anything before the party becuse the last thing that I want to do on the way home from work is stop and try to figure out just what the hell to get him, so he’s gotten nothing from me except a claddagh ring at the 2nd flea market we visited.

We did manage to score some great books at both flea markets. I’m kicking myself for not grabbing a copy of some old hardcover called The Modern Sex Handbook (or Modern Handbook of Sex, I can’t remember which it was), but I did score a 1936 copy of Gone with the Wind, a 1960’s illustrated sexual encyclopedia that describes lesbians as having a psychological imbalance and female arrousal as “voluptuousness”, and a 1934 almanac put out by Dr. Miles Medical Company that consisted of calendars, planting suggestions for every part of the year, and an equal part of advertisements for Nervine. Eddie found a tiny little memoir of Elizabeth Fry that looked interesting, and snagged a collection of Ian Flemming’s James Bond series for $5. Someday I’ll get around to posting pictures and a list of all these fun antique books we’ve been buying up.

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