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I Miss Libraries

At the library, you could say yes to everything

Amy Shearn
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readApr 28, 2020
Blurry photo of library book shelves.
Photo: Zephyr18/Getty Images

Recently, my children and I walked by our shuttered library and my nine-year-old son said, as if recounting a dream, “Remember… libraries? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you could just go in whenever you wanted? And there would be lots of other people there? And then you could pick whichever books you wanted and take…

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Amy Shearn
Human Parts

Formerly: Editor of Creators Hub, Human Parts // Ongoingly: Novelist, Essayist, Person