I Left a Book at the Cheesecake Factory in Philadelphia — Here’s Why I Want to Know Where It Goes

Friday, June 5th. It’s 6:45 in the evening and I’m standing outside the Cheesecake Factory on Walnut Street in Center City, Philadelphia. Book #6 just found its new starting point.

Before I got there, I made a detour to the beer garden. Full disclosure: I wanted a burger. A real one. Turns out, beer gardens are for beer — not burgers. Lesson learned. I moved on, and so did the book.

This drop was a little different for me, not in how I left it, but in what I’m genuinely curious about now. Every book I’ve left has been a small experiment in letting go. You release something into the world and you stop controlling what happens to it. It lands where it lands. It finds who it finds.

But this time, I’m asking something directly of whoever picks it up: if you decide to pass Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender along, make your own video and tag me. I want to see the journey. I want to know where this book finally settles, who holds onto it, and what it means to them when it gets there.

Are you going to keep it, pass it along, or actually read it? No judgment. All three are valid. I’m just curious.

What I know is this — things that are meant to keep moving, will. And the ones that are meant to stay? They stay.

Whether you found this book at the Cheesecake Factory or you’ve been following this experiment from the beginning, come connect: https://mylenasutton.com/invitations/

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