Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (…

Neil Gaiman
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Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) ✨ Neil Gaiman (2016). The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, p.21, HarperCollins
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Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) ✨ Neil Gaiman (2016). The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, p.21, HarperCollins

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