I Found The Book!

So I went to another town just for a little day trip. I visited the bookstore and found, lo and behold, a hardcover book titled 'Watership Down'.

I was prepared to buy it, prepared to abandon all the other books that I was holding in my hands to buy, if it proves to be expensive. I grabbed at it, inspected it, and felt all gloomy. It was in bad shape. The cover was a little bit dirty and some of the edges of the cover were torn. The top had a mark where somebody carelessly blemished with a permanent marker. Feeling discouraged but determined, I asked the bookstore clerk if they had another copy that I could buy. He checked for me and said it was the last copy. I thought about buying it, but I dislike books that are dirty. It's okay if it's an old book or the price is cheap, but I'm certainly not going to buy a torn book with the price of a perfectly presentable one. With a heavy heart, I had to let it go and hope for another encounter with a book with the same title.

Sad, I really wanted it. :(

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