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Woman finds childhood book decades after in a book Museum

Woman found her Forgotten Childhood book in a Museum after decades. 


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Zoe recognized the childhood copy of the Book Secret Garden by hieroglyphics inside, when the little girl wrote her name in hieroglyphics in the front cover of the book, she couldn't realize it would reunite her with the same book decades later.
Woman finds her childhood book in the museum
As kids learning in England, Zoe Andrews and her sister Hannah read the English Classic The Secret Garden and they wrote the front cover with Hannah's name.
Thereafter, they outgrew the full story and offered it to a nearby Oxfam Charity shop.
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Past week, while browsing in the used books store Zoe now 35 when opened the copy of The Secret Garden and found the same hieroglyphics that they wrote on the cover while they were kids.

The Museum of English Rural life had purchased Hannah's childhood book, for re-selling in their own shop. 

This lost and found story had sparked delight on social media, as people captioning how the old book went again to its original owner.
Zoe said It feels right to get it back Zoe told after re-purchasing it for 50p. She added saying Completely bizarre and unexpected when she got the book back after decades of lost and found.
She wrote I wonder how many other kids have read it over the years, and I was unbelievable when she opened it up.

Danielle Eade a worker at Museum commented that Zoe had not told us the tale behind it. When she did, I could not let her go without a photo adding that it was such a heart-touching tale.

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