March 2, 2011
Library Friends
My mom is a library director. She is also
Mimi. In her role as Mimi she keeps my son, Sam, while I’m at work. In
her role as librarian, she works some afternoons. Inevitably these two
roles collide, which makes for a little boy who loves the library . . . and
Nancy.
Nancy is another
librarian and a close family friend. Together, Nancy and Sam read books, build
cardboard cities, and fly paper airplanes. They create cat toys, tease, and
giggle. She teaches him to draw. He teaches her to use YouTube. They read more
books.
“No, not yet,” Sam
said when I arrived to take him home, “We are in the middle of this book.”
Nancy smiled and kept
reading.
Their relationship
has been built over books and years. Nancy takes the time to listen to him,
read to him, and create with him. Some people wait a lifetime to have a friend
like Nancy, yet Sam is one of the lucky ones. He has had this friend for a
lifetime.
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