Falling in Love with Books

Reading: A Love Story

How It Begins

By Vince Passaro

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Books populate our aloneness, transport us to other areas and other places, and give us face time with characters (Scout Finch! Jay Gatsby! Isabel Archer!) who seem more real than a lot of the people we know. Vince Passaro, on how it begins.

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