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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silverthwait, post: 444019, member: 103&quot;]Leary&#039;s in Philadelphia...&nbsp; Painting of &quot;The Bookworm,&quot; by Carl Spitzweg was their bookplate.&nbsp; (Later I collected copies of the print)&nbsp; Was first taken there when I was in second grade. I was six, and I thought I&#039;d gone to heaven!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t remember the first book my allowance bought me, but I DO remember one day when my parents left me there while they went shopping.&nbsp; I had orders to go to the car when I was finished, and wait for them.&nbsp; For the magnificent sum of $1.05, I gathered up three Nancy Drew&#039;s, and spent the time in the car reading, and finishing, &quot;The Secret in the Old Clock.&quot;&nbsp; Was about to go back to Leary&#039;s and trade it in for a Judy Bolton, but my parents came back.&nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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