Orange zine with blue moon doodle
Description
I lost my orange 6x9 inch zine titled 'Modesto Nights' yesterday around 3pm outside the Modesto Library on I Street. It’s a small, hand-stitched printed matter with a bright orange cover and a blue moon doodle on the front. The pages inside are cream-colored and slightly crinkled from rain, and the first page bears a handwritten inscription: 'To Lena, keep exploring.' The zine is basically a personal collection of poems and sketches; it feels sentimental to me, like a little map of my last year here. If someone found it near the library or the bike racks by the entrance, I’d be grateful to get it back.
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