My Fantasy Exchange was off to a bit of a rocky start. I could see that my info had been retrieved, but as weeks passed, it wasn't marked as shipped, and I had had no word from my match... and eventually Redditgifts told me that I really truly had to mark it as received or not straight away... and so I marked it as not received.

Literally the day I was rematched, my original match wrote me a message, explaining how they had been hit by a case of the RL, but that even if they would be unable to participate in any future exchanges now that I had marked their gift as not received, they'd still get the gift to me. I told him that it wasn't important since I had been rematched, and I actually felt a bit bad about getting two gifts now, but he insisted...

Being a happy rematcher myself, I tried calming my guilt by knowing that I'm still "ahead" when it comes to giving, but it didn't really help. But things have a way of working out. My original match decided to send me the first four books of A Song of Ice and Fire. It is definitely a great pick... however I already own the entire series! So now, instead, I will donate it to someone in a Freecycle-esque group here in Copenhagen and make someone else happy. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to do this, original match :)

So in true "Today you, tomorrow me!" style, the books will enter the great karmic cycle of RL (if you believe in that sort of thing :P)