I sent 2 copies of Love Injection to Douglas every month, one for David.
From what he identified as the text of "My Secret Life," Mr. Swango was inspired to copy: "I love it.
In December, on a recommendation from a new friend, I picked up a yellowed copy of "Love Story," Ruth McKenney's memoir from 1950.
Or indeed to have, hanging on the wall of his own home, the actual copy of "Love Me Do" (with Paul McCartney's name wrongly spelled) that was the first piece of Beatles vinyl to be played on radio?
Just as the British writers file their copy for love not money I intend to transfer the Slate UK domain name, which I still own, back to them gratis.
Instead, she writes her phone number in a copy of "Love in the Time of Cholera," which she hands off to a used-book seller, and makes Jon put his digits on a $5 bill, which she spends.
Inside a copy of "Love Scene," a paperback recounting the story of Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh, she writes, "this is without a doubt the worst writing I ever laid eyes on".
Then the director Peter Jackson, who had been given a copy of "Love in the Time of Science," invited her to sing "Gollum's Song" — a gothic bit of pap that Torrini's strong, glassy upper register almost saves — on the soundtrack of "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers".
The only thing he was wrong about was those hard copies - our love affair with computers hasn't ended our love for paper.
My grandmother kept copies of "I Love You Truly" and "A Bicycle Built for Two" on the piano, and in my memory I could still see those jaunty title pages as plain as day.
