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April 18, 2025 45 secs
Hear how a town helped a woman move thousands of books and a tons of boxes in just a couple hours.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's this bookstore. It's called Serendipity Books and it's a
local bookstore in Chelsea, Michigan. Well, the owner, Michelle Tuplin,
recently wanted to move her store to a bigger space
in town, but she was faced with kind of a challenge.
She wanted to move her inventory of ninety one hundred
books along with hundreds of boxes without closing the business

(00:20):
for days and days. So you know what the residents
of that town did. They lined up like a human
chain with about three hundred people passing each of the
books from the old store to the new one just
blocks away. And it took them only two hours, and
they were all in alphabetical order, by the way. That
is stunning. Isn't that crazy? That takes a lot of

(00:41):
coordination and a lot of work in a ton of caring,
I know,
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