Orange notebook with cactus sticker
Description
I lost my orange notebook this afternoon around 3pm near the Starbucks on Main Street in downtown Las Cruces. It's a small, soft-cover notebook with an orange cover and a green cactus sticker on the front; inside are pages of handwritten family recipes and travel notes from the last year. The bookmark is a frayed red ribbon, and the cover has a little water stain from a spill last week. It has sentimental value because it belonged to my grandmother, and the notebook contains recipes and reminders she wrote down in her own hand. If anyone found it, I'd be incredibly grateful to get it back.
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