One of my great regrets in life is a downsizing I did last summer when I put out some of my heavy books and furnishings.

One of them was a two volume hardboard paper copy of the Oxford English Dictionary from the 1980's (missing the magnifying glass and which I had hauled across the world). Some random passerby took it for free.

I didn't know that it was soon to become a pre-internet reference of the lexicon, and somewhat irreplaceable. I hope the neighbor who took it away, looks after it well.

One of my great regrets in life is a downsizing I did last summer when I put out some of my heavy books and furnishings.

One of them was a hardboard paper copy of the Oxford English Dictionary from the 1980's (missing the magnifying glass and which I had hauled across the world). Some random passerby took it for free.

I didn't know that it was soon to become a pre-internet reference of the lexicon, and somewhat irreplaceable. I hope the neighbor who took it away, looks after it well.