Iread the Aug. 6 letter, “ Fully fund the Duluth Public Library .” I cannot even imagine why a community should have to think twice about a resource as vital as this one.

From the time our children and grandchild could be carried or wheeled into that building, they have been exposed to literature, music, people, community, diversity, and humanity in every way imaginable. They crawled on those floors, played with the toys, checked out their first books and took them home to enjoy, researched school projects, and met kids their age to hang out away from parents and in a safe environment (we never knew, of course). We lived our literary lives there as well.

Now that I am older and homebound, I use my electronic library card to reserve books for my family to bring to me and sometimes downl

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