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Overdue library book returned after 90 years, $5 fine forgiven

never too late

Joanie Wheeler Morgan was visiting her family home in Hot Springs, Virginia, when she came across an extremely old, fragile-looking book.

Intrigued, she opened it, and quickly realised it belonged to a library. It was nearly 90 years overdue.

“I saw that the due date was the 11th of October, 1933,” said Wheeler Morgan. “I thought: ‘My God.’”

The book, Youth and Two Other Stories by Joseph Conrad, was published in 1902. It had been borrowed

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