so if this was a movie it would have worked out like this:
girl and boy meet on the interweb (that's the proper name for it). girl and boy share many varied and enriching activities together over the span of four or five months. there's a lot of montage and split screen. and devices. always with the cinematic devices. and a kick ass indie rock soundtrack. boy and girl share many common interests, like reading - they talk lots and lots about the books. the boy loves books but he hasn't read one he likes for a while. the girl is intrigrued - if she finds the right book for him he'll be captivated by her. mesmerised and awed, even. possibly, no, definitely humbled. and the girl knows that the boy's birthday is coming up (she looked in his wallet one time when he was out of the room. this comes across as endearing and not at all creepy and weird. and all girls do it. trust me). the girl subtly steers the conversation around to books that she has really liked, and discovers that the boy hasn't read them. so, over the course of the fortnight leading up to the boy's birthday, the girl finds three of these books on trade me that she thinks the boy will really like. like, really, really like. and she bids on them. and yay for the girl, she wins those auctions! and it looks tricky, because time is running out and one of the books is yet to arrive. but, whew, look, it's the day before his birthday and a nice brown paper parcel arrives at the girl's house JUST IN TIME. and she wraps the books nicely in quirky and interesting paper and takes them over to the boy's house and then........
but really, what happens is this:
the girl now has two copies of the time traveler's wife and the vintner's luck.
one for each eye. what a lucky girl!
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