Joanna: Yesterday, a small purple flower popped up in my favorite ... Sebastian: I am reading on the couch, waiting for the raspberry ... Alicia Taylor: The Kenwood House Gardens: London, England London's light breeze floats through still ... View more moments Leave your moment Who received the pie? Tasha: I usually drove up the mountain on my way back ... katie scott: the most looked at thing in history.... jessica m. hunt: Sometimes the moon looks like it is hanging so dangerously ... View more descriptions Leave your description	Download theme song, This is My Story I approached my friend Tony Rogers about composing a theme song long before I finished writing the book. We went back and forth on what kind of song it should be, what the general mood of it should be, for quite a while. He ended writing a bunch of songs--and not one of them sucked--but when he presented This is My Story, I knew we were done. We went into the studio to record it July 24th, 2004. Krispy Kreme donuts were served. This is My Story credits Tony Rogers: lyrics, music, vocals, acoustic guitar John Scholvin: guitar Tad Santos: bass Blake Cooper: drums Marcin Fahmy: piano Scott Ramsayer: engineer Lyrics I know a girl. She's pretty thick. I don't mean 'round the waist. I mean like she could write an encyclopedia about the shit in her head. Well that's what she did. She wrote a book. It's pretty wabi sabi. And by that I mean, it's happy and it's sad. And she'd like you to read it, it reads: Chorus: I have not survived against all odds. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. I have not lived to tell. This, this is my story. Is she like you? Is she a freak? She always looks for meaning in the everyday. She sees a license plate and thinks it's fate then wonders. She wants it all, can't have enough. How can you spend all day just trying to get through all the everything at last. When in the end there's nothing? Chorus Encyclopedia of an extra ordinary life. Encyclopedia of an extra ordinary girl. Encyclopedia of a child of the media. She needed me to write her song. Chorus	View thank yous The author would like to thank you The Chicago, Boston and San Francisco installments of the Lost and Found Project are now complete. 150 books were "intentionally left" around each city by a team of 20 friends/Book Hiding Specialists. They left them in places like the freezer at grocery store, shelf at Blockbuster, in the arms of a statue. Quite a few people wrote in to share their (often serendipitous) story of where & when they found the book. Filmmaker Steve Delahoyde documented the hiding of the first batch of Chicago books in this two-minute short film. Did you find this book? Notes from those who found a book Watch the Lost and Found video

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