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brought me to the library alone that day
was my I had moved into reading and my

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mother always knew I was such a big fan
of reading books and she I came from a

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low-income family we never really I
never had enough money to go buy me a

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book out of stores and she said hey you
know down the block on the fifth and

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Franklin there's a public library you
can go to they have tons of books there

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there's got to be something you like so
I came down well with my mother and she

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made me my library card at the front
desk

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and I took myself over to the team
department where I grabbed my first

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couple books and you know I went home
and the next day I met you know and I

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always wonder like what the thing that
brought me back to this building was my

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love of reading and getting to know more
than I already knew that was always a

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big part of me as a person was I want to
know everything and you know books I

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think are a great way of that is that
you can oh you can pick anything off any

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shelf and you'll find something new
you'll learn something new I think it's

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just the just the atmosphere and wanting
to learn more that always brought me

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back and the reason I came here
originally I would say is a combination

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of wanting to know more wanting to read
all the time and just wanting to find a

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place to hang out as you know when I did
move and when I every time I moved I

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always felt like something was missing
you know I always felt lonely I would be

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at home I had nowhere to go you know it
wasn't I know they had that place to go

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to that place to hang out with others
that place to interact with other people

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you know I had you know I went to other
schools yeah you know I met people there

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but it was never the same connection
that I had with a building like this

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building you know so when I would come
back you know I would like to God knows

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how many times I have to come back when
I would come back here you know I would

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meet again I'd meet more people
I've been affected in my own way but

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I've seen other people come in here one
type of the person you know they come in

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a very depressed upset person and then
they'll you know me and the people here

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they're come out of a completely happy
excited completed for person you know as

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if you would never suspect never
met him before you know this library it

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touches a lot of people a lot of
people's hearts especially on the other

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community here because I this place gets
a lot of people you know and they

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wouldn't be getting a lot of people if
the community here wasn't affected by

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the the programs that the adults have
the children have the teens have if you

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know if it wasn't for that you know
male-female anybody that quacks see here

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kid you know any kid you know I guess I
was a kid I came in and I felt like you

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know I was huh you know at another home
you know I felt like welcomed and I

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think that's the most important part of
a library is you need the person needs

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to feel welcomed and feel like this is a
place they can come to all the time and

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come to when they're not you know when
they're upset or when they have nowhere

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else to go this is the perfect place