She accepts the book and holds it carefully. The last thing she wants is for it to be damaged. "Thank you," she says, "but are you certain you don't want to read it in case there is anything in its pages you might recognize? There may be something in this book relating to what you remember." If it were her, she would read the book from cover to cover, perhaps more than once, no matter how slim the chances of finding something were.
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