It is fine free week at the library.
I had a book out, technically it is still out, since 1977.
I was thrilled when my mom let me stop at the bookmobile and get a book. I wasn't so thrilled the next month when it came back and I didn't have a way to return the book.
I kept it and kept it. I worried as a teenager that the book police would come and arrest me.
After a few years I didn't take it back because I was afraid to and I wouldn't go to the library either.
I left home and our house burned down and I thought the book went with it.
About ten years later the book turned up.
Then I realized that I was only about 50 years from setting a world record for returning a book.
So I kept it.
When I got sick the book went by the wayside as did most of my possessions.
I have no idea where it is now. The landlord probably burned it with all the stuff I left there that she didn't want.
The book was, "Justin Morgan, Story of the First Morgan Horse".
I was fortunate enough to have a Morgan Horse over the summer when I was in the 6th. grade.
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