I think it's highly likely that my hypothetical grandchildren will not readily know what a chain letter is.  Indeed, I have not gotten one in quite a long time.  So when LRock received one the other day and asked me to follow through on it, I was surprised.  But, it's from our sister-in-law, who is homebound and having a tough time lately, and it's for, wait for it, paperback books.

The premise is that I am to send one book to the person on the back of the page (who sent it to my sister-in-law, presumably) and I am to send out six copies of the letter with my sister-in-law's enclosed return address labels affixed AND six labels of my own.  So, in today's parlance, it's an email forward where the second generation of recipients will actually read the email.

The theory of the letter is that you will receive 36 books back.  I find this highly unlikely, even if I pick my six "well."  I put the over-under line at 4.  But I do want to support my sister-in-law, I am curious about the over-under line, I would be happy to donate any of the paperbacks I get to the local library, and I certainly have a book (or 100) to donate sitting in a box.

And to my readers, an overdue thank you.  As I know for a fact that this blog is not read by anyone in my family, including my wife, I am flattered to see that there are 60 hits in the past week and 209 in the past month.  If I get zero responses to my chain letter volunteer request, no worries, I will pick six unfortunates myself.

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