Rose petals in pages

The husband opened Ma Jian's Beijing Coma and found rose petals. I got the book from Singapore, after @kati.au recommended that I must read it. This was 2010. The flower petals are that old. People I have lent books to have found notes, post-its, petals, sketches and visiting cards of people they've never heard of. There was one time when I passed Sun Tzu's The Art of War around a classroom and my students read only the first page which had a love note to my husband. I had forgotten about it till they started showing it to each other. I looked at my shoes and turned red. #MSU #FJC #Books #SharingBooks