We're a little late picking this one up, but since it involves both a bikini and newborns, we don't think anyone will mind.
Several people (including this editor) had commented to author J. Courtney Sullivan that the photograph on the book jacket of her new novel Maine, from Knopf, didn't quite match the contents. The photo, of a beautiful woman wearing little besides a bikini, looking away from the camera toward an oceanic horizon, evokes "beach," but not the serious family drama set on the shores of Maine contained within the book's pages.
However, Allan Fallow of AARP The Magazine, saw something more when he looked at the picture: he was certain the shot had been taken at Huntington Beach in California. He was so certain of his hunch that he e-mailed the photographer to confirm.
Turns out Fallow was completely wrong--but also discovered a delightful love story. Ruggero Maramotti took the photo in 2004 of "a beautiful Swedish girl I met the week before," he wrote back. "Now she's the mom of my new born (sic) girls."
We think this story is totally awwww-some.