I haven't met anyone who was "raised" by the public library & librarians like I was everyday, esp in the summers, but they're out there
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We had the tiniest pub library so this isn't much of a claim, but I literally read every book in there. There alone, open to close everyday.
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That was in my PhD applications. Not the whole story bc I didn't want in on the basis of pity, but that I had read every book in the pub lib
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Because how else to you explain the trailer trash girl getting into the ivies when her parents didnt graduate HS, couldn't afford tutors etc
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The public library saved my life by keeping me away from some drug dealing traffickers, & it saved my life in giving me a new mental world
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Not everyone has such a dramatic reason to love public libraries, but almost all of us have some kind of reason. Support libraries ALWAYS.
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The public library took a little girl out of the trailer, out of a life of drugs, poverty, abuse & gave her safety & tools to get an ivy PhD
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there is no place as magical and beautiful as a public library
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Posted this thread this AM, I can't RT but I'd like to bring it back to the surface. Support libraries always bc libraries support people.
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Thanks for sharing. 


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