Miss Franny looked around the library. She leaned in close to me. "I don‘t want to appear pride-ful," she said, "but my daddy was a very rich man. A very rich man." She nodded and then leaned- P45
back and said, "And I was a little girl who loved to read. So I told him, I said, ‘Daddy, I would most certainly love to have a library for my birthday, a small little library would be wonderful.‘"
"You asked for a whole library?"
"A small one," Miss Franny nodded. "I wanted a little house full of nothing but books and I wanted to share them, too. And I got my wish. My father built me this house, the very one we are sitting in now. And at a very young age, I became a librarian. Yes ma‘am."- P46
