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Oddities continue.
Today at work, the buyer made a strange request to sign him on the spine of the book. He asked me to come up with a small congratulatory speech addressed to his wife that the book was supposedly bought in St. Petersburg on such and such a date, etc. I will reproduce the text I wrote:

The Bukvoed bookstore team in St. Petersburg cordially congratulates you on the successful purchase of Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s wonderful book, The Green Tent (name of congratulated), from (congratulating).
07/04/2011 Saint Petersburg.
sales consultant Egor Doktorov (signature) "

The buyer himself did not add a word.
While writing, he talked about his poetry club in the Urals, about his travels around the country, about the second day of his first visit to ex-Leningrad, about the difference in getting autographs by well-known authors and beginning little-known ones, and other small interesting stories.
Now I'm sitting and thinking.

Now, a book is walking somewhere in the world, And, I hope, it will take a long walk. And the autograph is ugly on it, and who wrote does not understand.

I sincerely and persistently repeat: Life is full of surprises :)