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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Barbara Mertz

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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
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Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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