Image DAY 168 PHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITIES

Urban Legends III

VACATIONING LAWN GNOMES

A family wakes up one morning to find that a decorative gnome is missing from their front lawn. The suburbanites chalk it up to petty thieves and go along with their lives...until one day they receive a postcard. The card reads, “I just needed some time away. Signed, your loving lawn gnome,” and features a photograph of the gnome standing in some faraway tourist destination. Over the course of several months, the family receives a series of postcards from around the world, all of which include a different photograph of their missing lawn ornament.

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