“We have become such a part of the community that little
shop is a place that families come not just to buy books, but to be a part of
the community. So I have this story that I like to tell that on Sunday mornings
I’ll come in really early before the shop opens and I’ll kind of sit in the
dark to try and get work done before the shop opens. And every Sunday that I do
that, I hear someone tugging at the door trying to get in and I hear the parent
having the conversation with their little kid like, ‘Oh their not open, they don’t
open until noon.’ And almost always the kid is upset and the mom has to
reassure that, ‘they will go back, they will go back.’ But there was this one
morning, just recently, that that happened and I heard a little kid tugging on
the door. The mom said, ‘Oh no, not yet,’ and the child expressed disappointment
about it. They might have even started crying and the mom said, ‘Yeah, it’s one
of my favorite places too.’ And it was just such a powerful moment to know what
we are to the community,”
