Local woman overcome with guilt after returning library book unread - The Beaverton
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Local woman overcome with guilt after returning library book unread

CALGARY – is known as a means of escape from the harshness of reality, but for one woman who wishes to remain anonymous, a ticking clock turned her dream of a pleasant diversion into a looming nightmare.

“I never meant for things to go this far,” she said, adjusting the trenchcoat, fedora and sunglasses she wore to return the “I kept telling myself I still had time. We all lie to ourselves, don’t we? As the due day crept closer and closer, I started renewing it, desperately, over and over. Soon I was out of renewals and out of time.”

She briefly considered keeping the book even after it was due. But she shared a card with her husband, and she was adamant he not pay [the nickel a day overdue fee] for her sin.

“You get to a point where you’ve dug yourself a hole so deep you realize it’s not just a hole, it’s a grave,” she said, taking a long drag on her cigarette. “When you find yourself in a grave, sometimes all you can do is lie down in it.”

“I read something like that in a book once. Not this book, of course. I never got around to reading it.”

At press time, the anonymous woman had reached her breaking point and was trying to surrender herself to a very confused librarian.