...maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present.""Nonsense," the bookseller said. "There's always time to appreciate a good book.
I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.
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I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.
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