If I had placed it in the library and said that was my text, that would have been misleading because it was not the one that I used when I spoke at the ABI.

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When I was 9, I used to huddle in the back of the library with my friend Leanne, and we'd turn the 1991 edition of the Guinness book's pages with purple hands sticky from raspberry Laffy Taffy.

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When I was in grad school, I wrote my dissertation by going to the library and borrowing periodicals and books off the shelf.

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When I was invited I had already committed to speak at the public library in the small town where I live.

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Once, when I was asking too many unanswerable questions in the Local History section of the Niagara Falls Public Library, librarian Maureen Fennie held up a hand to stop me.

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So when I recently went to buy my first copy of The Dandy in decades - research for a story on a new exhibition at the National Library of Scotland - I was slightly thrown by its look.

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