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The World in a Book Store

These days I've been finding myself at Barnes and Noble A LOT! No, this is not a paid advertisement for the place nor is it even a voluntary one. I just like the smell of new books and the quiet atmosphere, as well as occasional wafts of coffee; in fact, I prefer it a lot more over Starbucks. So I'm here again and really not able to concentrate on my research paper that I've been working on for the past 2 days.... And as is most likely to happen, my eyes started to wander. They finally found these two women - friends or family, who knows - laughing hysterically. One was laughing so hard she was wiping her eyes with a tissue. And it brought a smile to my face as I thought about how just last night I was doing the same thing with a friend on our way out of the store to go home. She was sharing this funny book with me, so we lingered at a table browsing through this book; and of course subsequently, we started laughing. And as I watch these two women flip through books togethe