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Goodreads asked Michelle Richmond:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Michelle Richmond While on a brief stopover vacation in Iceland 18 years ago, my husband and I were befriended by a nice young couple on the ferry from Reykjavik to Akranes. We did not exchange numbers, and we didn't even get their names, but they told us they lived in Ohio. At the end of the ferry ride, we wished each other well.

A few weeks later, I was at the movie theatre near our apartment on 84th street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In the lobby, I saw the woman who had been on the ferry with us. I waved to her and smiled. She saw me, seemed to recognized me, but did not respond. She quickly turned and left the theatre. By the time I got outside, she was gone.

I've always wondered what she was doing in my neighborhood, and why she ran away.

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