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I (HEART) LIBRARIES

I was raised in a household that valued education.  But, being a blue-collar household in a largely blue-collar community, luxuries were in short supply.  Sure, we had some books around the house – my big sister’s complete set of the Nancy Drew mystery series comes to mind – but not many, and certainly not the latest hot literary fiction or New York Times bestsellers.  (Or the New York Times, for that matter.)

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Hitting the Restart Button

In case we haven’t met, my name is Charles Joseph Greaves, and I’m a novelist.

Such was not always the case.  If you’d asked me in junior high, I’d have told you that my goal in life was to play guard for the Knicks.  By high school, I’d lowered my sights to brain surgery.  This I’d actually pursued, until I encountered a pre-med college course called Inorganic Chemistry.  By the time I’d hit graduate school, it was law, not medicine, that glowed like a new dawn on my life’s horizon.

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