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Library fines were holding him back. He was positively addicted to books. The fines were lower than the rates on his credit cards but that didn’t make him feel much better. They added up. And up and up and up. Video rental stores got rid of the fines if you complained enough, but not libraries. Libraries were tough. They knew him by name when he went in their now, the pretty librarian, the sassy librarian, the music librarian. He wondered what nicknames they had for him. There were lots of people he hadn’t paid back, in many ways, but only the library really bothered him, because it was stable.