Foreword to

Elizabeth Smart

By Grand Central Station

I Sat Down and Wept

by



W.P. Junk19

B.A. (Hons), Grad.Dip.Ed, LL.B.

 

Why Elizabeth Smart?

Because... she is a hero to so many people.

And these people are?

Well, me. And Camille. And a whole lotta other folks...(link to links page here, soon.)

Why By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept?

Because it is probably out of print (search www.amazon.com if you don't believe me. I reckon it'd take 3 years to ship it to you even if you lived next to their distribution house.)
When I looked, I found an actual copy in but a single Australian university library (admittedly I only looked in the two universities that really matter.)

Is it out of copyright?

I thought it may be, since it's been 56 years since it was first published. Yeah, a lawyer should know better. BGSISDaW may have been written in 1945, but ES died in 1983, and so it will become public domain in 2043. If you're from her estate, you know where to email me the take-down notice.

Yes, but why By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept?

Because if you have ever loved, and you have known that your love was for someone, someone as imperfect as yourself, who nevertheless took your heart entire but never returned...