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Libraries I have visited (because once I started the list, I really couldn’t stop now, could I?)

Denver (main branch)
New York City (main branch)
Boston (main branch)
Portsmouth, NH
Savannah, GA (can’t remember which branch)
Greenfield, MA
Huntington Beach, CA
University of California at Santa Cruz
Avon, CT
MIT
Gardena, CA
Turners Falls, MA
Sherman, TX
Marshalltown, IA
Minneapolis (main branch)
Malden, MA
Camden, ME
Orleans, MA
Syracuse University
Kittery, ME
Plaistow, NH

Missing from the list: US Library of Congress, libraries in foreign lands, and about a million others.

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