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A Year in Reading: Shruti Swamy

Do you remember, in late March, when it started to get serious? In my state, that’s when the shelter in place orders came down, and every third person walking down the street was clutching toilet paper in their arms. For me, the emergency hoarding was library books—I literally ran to my local branch when I received the email that they would be closing (for a couple weeks, I think everyone said, but we knew it

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