I'm curious about that book too. Maybe she put it there for you to find. If someone wanted to trash it it would have been in the bin? Or the ex finally ditched it.
It's just my suspicious mind but that is really the most bizarre story! Reminds me of the movie serendipity
. I'm feeling really good about this now.
I think I was apprehensive to destroy it because it was a gift from him ( he also gave the same to her). And I still have not totally detached from him. But I have from her and I don't want reminders of her in my life. I have to photo also on a disk. No need to destroy the disk tho because its not so in my face and there are hundreds of pics just of me, and also if her and I . Maybe in time ill delete the ones if her, but they aren't bothering me at this point.
My exBPD is a minimalist. His ex gf once left a brand new jumper at his house and was contacting him to get him to send it to her. This was in the first weeks I was with him. He simply took it to the op shop. Never looked back , no desire to send it to her. She was upset he just discarded her item so ruthlessly. And so I will discard thus in the same matter if fact manner. I think it will be hard tho, it was really hard throwing out the zucchini