Ogre Battle 64 was a game I lent to a friend. We were tight in middle school and then he moved away, but we stayed in touch. In college, I lent him the game, and somehow it ended up in the hands of his girlfriend, who he broke up with abruptly because she got pregnant (and it turned out the kid wasn't his.) She left their college and moved back home, but somehow wrote
me
a note -- I've never met her -- promising that she would send the cartridge back to me.
Unsurprisingly, that never happened.
Only the exceptions can be exceptional.