Safe Refuge

I had a very difficult childhood and access to a library was literally a lifeline for me. Books I could not afford to buy provided a safe escape from what was going on at home, I simply do not think I could have survived it so well if I could not have opened the doors to other worlds. As I grew the habit of reading stayed with me and has provided a very wide ranging education. I would be sad beyond belief to think that children now would not have the same priceless opportunity that I had.