"The Giant Book of Essential Knowledge" 1957

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At my apartment building there is a bookshelf in the common area by the laundry room. It's a take a book, leave a book type of a thing. Mostly it's populated by romance novels, and Reader's Digest volumes. However when I went to do my laundry yesterday I was greeted by a green hulk of a book. "The Giant Book of Essential Knowledge" 1957. So I gave it a new home. Inside it is inscribed in red ink "To Carolyn from Santa 1957" A few pages in there are bits of black and yellow embroidery floss. And further in there is a 4 leaf clover , pressed There are some great illustrations in it. But these things make me wonder - who is Carolyn? How did life turn out for her? How gave the book to her? Where was she when she found the clover? What was the best thing she learned from the book? Such things are treasures Photo: Mine - the clover I found in the book