Episode 80: My roommate can say my mom's bedtime story word for word and I thought every kid in America went to the same book fair
Submitted by Tess — Richmond, Virginia. 31. My mother read me the same book every night from the time I was four until I was almost ten. It was a thin paperback called The Lamp at Gull Point, about a lighthouse keeper and a seagull who is afraid of the dark. She bought it at the Scholastic book fair in my kindergarten gym for two dollars and fifty cents, and the price is still penciled inside the cover in her handwriting. It lives on the shelf over my bed. I'm thirty-one, and I have carried it through four apartments. I've lived with Jess for six years. My mom actually found her listing. She…
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