Dude Returns Library Book, After 60 years!
December 9, 2009
Filed under Weird Stuff
A young boy walks out of a library with a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, without even bothering to check it out. He’s afraid of returning it because he thinks the librarian will accuse him of being a repentant thief.
But finally he mails the book back to the library, 60 years later!
“‘Carrying guilt for 60 years is a terrible thing,’ the patron wrote in a letter that showed up on a recent day in the mail room of the Main Library in downtown Toledo. Accompanying the letter: the long-borrowed book.
JANET ROMAKER/The Toledo Blade
I’m glad the man finally returned the book, because in a few years the Internet and electronic book readers are going to make libraries obsolete.
This is a great holiday story. Do you have a library book or a video from Blockbuster that you never returned? Do the right thing this holiday season.
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