I have to say that I think I probably took the library for granted, because my father had been taking me since before I could walk, probably. For him, as an immigrant from a country that had been through a couple of very devastating wars, where libraries were not a real high priority, the libraries in this country were a miracle. He just couldn’t believe it. He was 19 years old when he went into his first public library ever, and if you think about it, it’s a very bizarre concept: “I can walk in and take whatever I want?”
“Yeah, yeah, sure. Just bring ‘em back.”
You know, you can’t do that with anything else, and it’s really kind of an alien idea.
