Somebody out there has my stuff. I think that person might be Mary Romeiro, of San Joaquin, California.

This morning I received ten of the boxes I'd shipped home to my parents' place. Two of them turned out to have only half the stuff I'd put into them; the other stuff in the boxes was someone else's.

After getting a shrug and a not-my-job from a few postal service employees, I finally found someone at the central Rochester office who was willing to take down my name and address, in case anyone else comes out of the woodwork with my missing books.

There was a clue in the box: a form for some kind of book-of-the-month club which was printed with the address of a Mary Romeiro in San Joaquin, California—maybe Mary has my stuff, or maybe Mary knows the person who has my stuff. Either way, if you know where it is, I hope you'll get in touch with me.

Also, if you received some boxes today, and half the stuff in them is not yours, and if that stuff includes a bunch of paperback books and some hardbound journals (sentimental value! priceless!) it might be mine. I don't remember what titles I had, but they probably include some fiction, maybe some plays, maybe some philosophical stuff. I see that you have similar interests! You are also into psychology (particularly "existential psychology") and Hebrew literature which I can't even read, so I'm impressed. It also appears that you can read Spanish, even poetry in Spanish, and are interested in writings by Federico Garcia Lorca and Jorge Luis Borges. In spite of my frustration, I'm glad to have accidentally exchanged books with someone having such an interesting collection.

If you like the books you got, feel free to keep 'em! But I hope you'll send anything handwritten or personal that was in there. I can be contacted at the email address ezra at ezrakilty.net. I turned in your books at the Rochester, NY central post office, the 14623 location.