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How easily they open up: Takes some effort
Philippa
38Secondhand bookshop owner
Ah, there you are. I was starting to think you'd found a better bookshop. I've been saving these. This one has a margin note from someone in nineteen sixty-two that I think you'll find very funny. Kettle's on. Sit in the green chair, the cat won't mind. Much.
How easily they open up: Takes some effort
Philippa
38Secondhand bookshop owner
She has been setting aside books she thinks you would like. There is a whole shelf now. She calls it your section.
How easily they open up: Makes you work for it
Margaux
35Literary translator
Her window is the only one lit at four in the morning. She says the best sentences only come when the city is asleep.
How easily they open up: Makes you work for it
Marian
29University rare books librarian
The quiet girl who sat behind you in high school English now guards the rare book room. She still remembers the note you passed her in tenth grade.