Since I was nearing the end of the book I was listening to at the time, I decided to read customer reviews about Twilight on Audible. She assured me that I had the wrong idea about the story. A few days later I was talking on the phone with a friend of mine and she seemed to be certain that I would have read the Twilight books because they were "just exactly my thing." I scoffed openly. I was polite but I secretly scoffed and changed the subject before she could say any more about it. She mentioned that she had read all of the Twilight books. Last week I was chatting with my nephew's wife and I asked her if she liked to read. It had never even occurred to me that it was a book, although movies like this frequently are based on novels. So, absolutely ALL I knew was: Vampires, teenagers, love, and some guy named Robert Pattinson that all the young girls were raving about. I have nothing against vampires, in the proper setting, but I don't like romances and I'm not a teenager. No way." And from that moment I tuned out just about every mention of it. I imagine I accidentally caught part of a movie preview somewhere and thought, "Teenage vampire love story. The date is Augand less than a week ago I knew less about the Twilight series than just about anyone alive.
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