UPDATE: Judy Blume Saves Brooklyn Couple's Marriage

Brooklyn’s collective heart went out to Leonard Lasek yesterday, after he posted “LOST” signs all over Greenpoint admitting he had accidentally given away his wife’s treasured old copy of “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” in a box he set on the curb.

“This book is extremely important to my wife,” he wrote. ”It was a keepsake from her mother and is irreplaceable.”

In the span of a Thursday, we laughed, we cried, we indexed all our shabby-looking keepsakes with our loved ones so the same tragedy wouldn’t befall us.

And now, we have our happy ending.

Judy Blume tweeted her condolences on Thursday evening, offering to replace the old book with another signed copy.Patch reached out to Lasek via the contact number he provided on the ”LOST” posters. “Did you see Judy Blume’s offer to send you a new book?” we wrote.

“I have not heard about the offer,” he replied. ”I’m actually traveling in Europe so it’s been hard to check texts on time.”

We informed him of Blume’s Twitter proposal, and within an hour, Blume had her reply.

Lasek and his wife Katie Ligon, a local chef, are actually in Europe right now, where they’re attending a wedding. (As if this whole thing couldn’t get more adorable.)

And a little Internet stalking reveals that Lasek and Ligon were themselves only married this summer, in June. Ligon writes on her KitchenSurfing profile:

As you can gather from the title, my boyfriend is vegan, and I am anything but. I hail from coastal North Carolina and grew up on grits, sweet tea and molasses on everything. This makes for a very unique situation in the kitchen.

Lasek, on his part, has changed his Twitter tagline to “don’t ever clean the apartment.”

We’re in love.