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How Living In A Library Gave One Man ‘The Thirst Of Learning’

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Posted on October 14, 2017 · Ronald Clark's father was a live-in custodian at a New York City library. Clark tells his daughter about growing up surrounded by stacks of books — and how that shaped the man he would become.

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